The Rubin Observatory will eventually hold the world's largest digital camera. It's therefore a good sign it has aced its ...

[Andrew] summarizes things quite well: “yes… One of the world’s largest telescopes, 370 tons of steel and glass, was brought to a halt because of a bad indicator LED”. It stopped things by ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

NASA has converted a 747 jumbo jet into a flying telescope. The Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy flies high above the clouds to capture information about the stars. Video courtesy ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

Around the middle of 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin its mission to help us better understand the cosmos.

Today’s largest telescopes have mirrors up to some ten meters (33 feet) in diameter, with quadruple the light-gathering power of the legendary five-meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for the ...

The 16-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope’s mirror makes it the largest in Philadelphia; for comparison, the Franklin Institute’s Joel N. Bloom Observatory has an 8” Schmidt-Cassegrain. To reach ...

While exploring the wilderness of County Durham, UK, Tokyo Matilda stumbled upon an astonishing find—three abandoned observatories, including one housing the UK's largest stargazing telescope.