Atop the mountain Cerro Armazones in Chile, construction is underway on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which will usher ...
PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...
As the 10th American institution to invest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology expands the Giant Magellan Telescope international consortium to 16 members from the United States, Chile, Australia, ...
PASADENA, CA, Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Giant Magellan Telescope today welcomes Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), a distinguished Taiwanese research ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...
A new preprint paper has taken a look at what propulsion systems could deliver spacecraft to a particularly interesting area ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The director of a ...
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The GMTO Corporation, the international consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, today announced it has appointed Daniel T. Jaffe as ...
Chilean technicians exploded the top off of Las Campanas Peak in the Atacama Desert to begin the construction of a telescope ten times as powerful as the Hubble on Friday morning. The event was so ...
PASADENA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has joined its international ...