In one of the driest places on Earth, a giant eye on the universe is taking shape. Perched high in the Atacama Desert on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The UArizona-managed Large Binocular Telescope on Mount ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) will have a new director starting Sept. 1, 2005. Richard Green, currently director of Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), is making a move to the Large Binocular ...

For backyard astronomers, the promise of image-stabilized binoculars is simple: sharper, steadier views of the night sky without a tripod. The question is whether that extra stability, and the ...

Astronomers at the Large Binocular Telescope have produced the sharpest image of a star ever seen. They used new equipment called adaptive optics to eliminate the twinkle of stars. Twinkling stars ...

Imaging earth like exoplanets around Sun-like stars from the ground is challenging. We have never done it and here is an ...

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