They may have to compete with entrepreneurs flocking to the moon for business and mining. Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their ...

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish antennas such as the Very Large Array. What you likely don't imagine is ...

Underneath the University of Arizona's football stadium are the beginnings of the Giant Magellan Telescope, set to be the largest optical telescope in the world. The Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory ...

The University of Arizona announced it will help build two of the three instruments needed for a new telescope.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HONOLULU (AP) — Construction on a giant ...

For most of us, mirrors are something we buy instead of build. However, [Unnecessary Automation] wanted to craft mirrors of his own for a custom telescope build. As it turns out, producing ...

A new proposal to build telescopes on Haleakalā's summit is reigniting a fight that has been ongoing for more than a decade. This time, the U.S. Air Force is looking ...