The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the instrument.

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

In a groundbreaking achievement for solar astronomy, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest solar ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

The ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) by ESO, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, features a 39-meter diameter primary mirror. Solutions for Process Automation by GF Piping Systems ...

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so ...

The operating cost of large telescopes like that one does not encourage large-field mapping projects because of the time involved and largely rules out more speculative searches, making purely ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope - sort of a postmortem examination - indicate that the planet's demise happened differently than initially thought. Instead of the star coming to ...

The cosmic weirdness could be explained by the gravitational effects of a large planet ... Brown says he couldn't have asked for a better telescope to hunt his celestial quarry.

Travel easily with the best small telescopes for observing when going on location or sharing with friends and family: Spot the moon, stars, galaxies and more Whether you're a beginner stargazer or ...