For budding astronomers and space experts, telescopes bridge the gap between them and space. To take your love of the planets ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...

Even if a wavelength makes it through to the ground, terrestrial telescopes also have to contend with problems such as clouds, atmospheric distortion, and light pollution.

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

Follow-up observations from the Gemini-North telescope on Hawaii Island and the Very Large Telescope in Chile returned ...