Using a cutting-edge adaptive optics system developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, a growing planet ...

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona ...

The protoplanet, now named WISPIT 2b, was spotted using advanced adaptive optics on some of the world’s most powerful telescopes.

Astronomers at the Large Binocular Telescope have produced the sharpest image of a star ever seen. They used new equipment called adaptive optics to eliminate the twinkle of stars.

A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of ...

The Large Binocular Telescope atop Mount Graham incorporates a technological leap in its distortion-canceling adaptive optics.

According to images from the SHARK-VIS camera installed on the Large Binocular Telescope, the team captured the most detailed pictures ever taken from Earth of Io’s surface using visible light ...

The LBT offers an unmatched opportunity for astronomers to probe the universe for clues to the origins and fates of stars, galaxies and our solar system. The LBT will have 10 times the resolution of ...

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared, using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.