Lying just to the northeast and southwest of Alkaid, the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper, is a pair of small smudges of light visible in a pair of binoculars on a dark, moonless night. The ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy. In this image ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a reflecting ...