The 100AZ is our best telescope for beginners, with a host of user-friendly features, and it's also just hit the best price ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

University of Iowa graduate research assistant Jacob Payne uses nitrogen to dry off a mirror at Van Allen Hall in Iowa City on Friday. Payne — with guidance from UI Physics and Astronomy Associate ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be ...

Last month, Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green committed to working with the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority and the ...

The All-Seeing Eye, which came into operation in the 2070s, was by far the largest and most powerful optical instrument ever built. Comprising eight telescopes built across the entire lunar surface, ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), which is Africa’s largest optical telescope and one of the most powerful in the ...