The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT The Large Zenith Telescope is a 6 m optical telescope employing a rotating primary mirror coated with a film of liquid mercury.

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

When it’s finished, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the most powerful optical telescope ever, will search for distant Earth-like planets and expand our understanding of the cosmos.

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Today, solar panels power the James Webb Space Telescope, which offered the world ... NASA is also using two large cross-shaped PV arrays to power its Psyche mission, which will bring a craft ...

It is expected to be completed and begin operations in 2028, which will make it the world's largest optical telescope.

Earlier this year a simple indicator LED brought the Keck 1 telescope, a 370 tons mass, to a halting stop. How exactly did an LED do this? Simple: it did nothing. As it so happens, [Andrew Cooper ...

Construction began Wednesday, Nov. 11 on what could become the world's largest optical telescope. The 22-story Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), now being built in a desert atop a mountain in Chile ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...