At the summit of Cerro Pachón, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes is now capturing some of the oldest light in the ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

AGC Plasma Technology Solutions is proud to announce its pivotal role in enabling the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the most ambitious ground-based ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

King Filip and Queen Mathilde left for Chile on Monday morning for what will be the first Belgian state visit to a Latin ...

Its two telescopes, the 11.5-foot (3.5 meters) New Technology Telescope (NTT) and the 11.8-foot (3.6 m) telescope both use ultraprecise mirrors to bounce images back from space for analysis.