New leadership announced to guide the next phase of funding and constructionPASADENA, Calif., Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ...

The group building what could become the world's most powerful optical telescope, the Giant Magellan, has a new leader. The ...

The University of Texas at Austin's Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

Astronomer Daniel Jaffe has been appointed the next president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation – the international consortium building the $2.5bn Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). He succeeds ...

Size matters when it comes to telescopes. The bigger they are, the farther they can see. Prioritizing constructing large ones ...

With the help of Texas schools, the Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final ...

Scientists outline the scientific and technical case for building a northern-hemisphere 30-meter telescope at La Palma to support time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.

The bill would cut the Office of Fossil Energy down to $720 million, including $140 million in prior year balances from the ...

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it vanished. Even stranger, another bright object appeared nearby. After studying ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

New video obtained by KXAN shows Waymo’s driverless vehicles have been caught again illegally passing stopped school buses in ...

Astronomers observing the starFomalhaut, located just 25 light-years from Earth, believed they had detected a planet, later named Fomalhaut b, reflecting its host star’s light. Over time, that light ...