Some of the largest telescopes are serving as Earth's eyes to explore supernovas, galaxies and other distant objects. Here are the ten biggest telescopes in action and in progress today. You may like ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any other telescope on Earth. Instead of a single mirror, the array is made ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest ...

An Astronomy magazine tally has found that more than 100 of Earth’s biggest research telescopes have closed in recent weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What started as a trickle of closures in ...

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After 30 years of planning, construction of the SKA Telescope, set to be the world's largest telescope array, began in South Africa on December 5.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

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From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet.