The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...

Astronomy leaders in the United States want to build two huge telescopes, the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope, the first covering the southern sky from Chile and the second ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Direct imaging with extremely large telescopes such as the Larger Binocular Telescope Interferometer and the upcoming 83.5 feet Giant Magellan Telescope located in Chile makes it possible to ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

such as the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as the future 25-metre Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the upcoming 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), both being built in Chile. This way, ...

NGC 2002: In the middle of this Hubble Space Telescope image, a twinkling group of stars known as Globular star cluster NGC 2002 takes center stage. NGC 2660: This sparkling constellation of stars ...

The observations mark a major step forward in AGN research and set the stage for future discoveries with even larger telescopes, like the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile. “This type of imaging ...

The study used data from multiple telescopes, including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the Magellan telescopes and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope — all located in Chile ...