On a high desert plateau in Chile, a massive structure is taking shape. The dome of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is ...

The TMT project is back under consideration for federal support, but it must complete a final design phase without taxpayer assistance.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The UArizona-managed Large Binocular Telescope on Mount ...

Scientists using the Large Binocular Telescope located near Safford have discovered something unusual about the the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy. It's shaped like a cigar, not a sphere, unlike billions of ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...