The Giant Magellan Telescope is advancing into the National Science Foundation Major Facilities Final Design Phase, a milestone that positions our nation to lead the next era of discovery. PASADENA, ...

Launched in December 2021 after three decades of development and at a cost of some $10 billion, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the biggest investments ever made in astronomy. That ...

ASU’s SPARCS telescope successfully launched into orbit on Jan. 11 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, marking a milestone for ...

It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a mysterious early-universe galaxy nicknamed “Jekyll and Hyde”, revealing a ...

The University of Texas at Austin’s Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...