Kolkata groups create largest handmade telescope, low-cost, powerful, and easy to handle, for space research and education.

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a low water vapor content and it’s far from the city lights. The top of Cerro ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study cosmic mysteries.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for the ...

The 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is being built in China. With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016.

Plans for the world’s biggest telescope – the Square Kilometre Array - have advanced significantly with a decision to locate the project office at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank ...

This is despite the country having a 500-metre aperture spherical telescope (Fast) in Pingtan, Guizhou province, the largest single radio dish on the planet; and the Guoshoujing telescope in ...

A team in Kolkata has built the city's largest handmade telescope, a 14.5-inch Dobsonian, showcasing both scientific ambition ...