The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Credit: Emmeline Close and Laird Close Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas ... The star is surrounded by a giant, pancake-shaped disk of gas and dust.

Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory ... The star is surrounded by a giant, pancake-shaped disk of gas and dust. Intriguingly, the disk is marked by a large ...

Within a hundred meters of the surface, there's enough sunlight to support plant growth such as giant kelp ... Ferdinand Magellan's expedition managed to circumnavigate the planet by ship because ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Astronomers have used near-infrared light to explore the extreme forces behind the eruption of LMC68, a recurrent nova in the ...

Giant mirror: Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light ...