We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Imagine having a telescope that could see almost 14 billion years back in time to when the universe was just forming. There is a project underway called CMB-S4 that plans to build two next-generation ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price." ...

Gemini South on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile (left) and Gemini North on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai’i (right). Gemini / NSF / AURA Hackers have launched an apparent cyberattack on the ...

For telescopes operating in the vacuum of space, or optical equipment in extreme environments, existing coatings are often insufficient. Researchers have turned to atomic layer deposition and ...

Physicists and engineers at CU Boulder envision infrared astronomy telescopes that may one day span the entire globe—syncing up observations from instruments spread across the continents, or even ...

More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. When you think of a telescope, you think of an enormous long ...

Space telescopes are all the rage, and rightfully so. The images they take are spectacular, and they’ve greatly increased what we know about the universe. Surely, any picture taken of, say, ...