The Hubble Space Telescope has been a major contributor to space exploration ever since it was delivered into low Earth orbit on April 24, 1990, by NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery. The telescope is a ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct. For his 10″ reflector, [Carl Anderson] once again said “Yolo”— this time ...

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

Consider this: astronomers think of the Hubble Space Telescope as small. That might surprise you because after three decades' worth of images from Hubble with depth and detail most ground-based ...