PHOENIX — Arizona is home to telescopes at Kitt Peak south of Tucson and Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff and now northern Arizona is a finalist to be home for a 40- telescope array. Meteor Crater and ...

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

The SKA Organization Board of Directors is very pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Philip Diamond as Director General of the SKA Organization. Professor Diamond will provide overall ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is trying to do for astronomy what cheap cloud computing did for software, backing a space ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble.

On 15 December, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration announced through an Astronomer's Telegram (ATel) the detection of the source OP 313 at very high energies with the LST-1. Although OP 313 ...

South Africa’s SKA-Mid telescope comes alive as "first fringes" confirm it is now a working scientific instrument.

Ho, Jan. 09, GNA – The Square Kilomere Array (SKA) Observatory’s growing telescope array in South Africa, SKA-Mid, has achieved its “first fringes” using two of its dishes, a milestone demonstrating ...

North Carolina Central University is one of 14 higher education institutions and government agencies in the U.S. contributing to NASA’s next space telescope known as the Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...