The steel skeleton of the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is illuminated by the rising full moon in gorgeous ESO photo.

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

A Chilean observatory has unveiled the largest telescope in the world, equipped with a simply massive camera and capable to taking incredible photos.

The proposed lunar liquid-mirror telescope, which Schauer has nicknamed the "Ultimately Large Telescope," would have a mirror 100 meters in diameter. It would operate autonomously from the lunar ...

Some astronomers are advocating the construction of an “Ultimately Large Telescope” on the moon to further research about the Big Bang.The ideas is to set up a telescope that would allo… ...

A telescopeon the far side of the moon could probe the "dark ages" of theuniverse while blocking out the radio-wavelength noise of Earth civilizations. Up to onehundred thousand antennas would ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...

And since it takes the Moon 27 days to orbit Earth, a telescope would be in darkness for half the month and able to observe the same object for almost two weeks at a time.

For now, the tiny new moon has a clunky name, but if it passes peer review, they might call it something better.