When you hear about big science projects like a huge new telescope or a miles-long particle accelerator, it’s usually in the context of the big science discoveries they’ve made. But before anyone can ...

Space has always been a wonder to even those who lived before us. Is Earth the center of the Universe? Is Earth flat? Well, the answer to those two is no. But that did not stop people from believing ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...

Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon to see and hear the universe more clearly. Lunar telescopes could be even stronger than the James Webb Space Telescope. They may have to compete ...

Sporting the world’s largest digital camera, the new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.