When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Daisy Dobrijevic They call La Palma the island of stars, and in April 2025, it became the ...

A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

As the U.S. backs away from key climate, aid, and scientific investments, Europe is stepping in to pick up the slack. Europe’s latest intervention? Saving a plan to build one of the world’s largest, ...

The first pictures from the new Swedish solar telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands, are presented in an article in the prestigious science journal Nature from November 14. The images of the sun are ...

HONOLULU (AP) — When starlight from billions of years ago zips across the universe and finally comes into focus on Earth, astronomers want their telescopes to be in the best locations possible to see ...

The LST-1 telescope, located at the CTAO’s northern array site in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), began observing GRB 221009A just 1.33 days after the initial explosion. GRBs are among the ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Saturday unveiled what it called the world's second largest optical solar telescope. The telescope on the Spanish island of La Palma will allow scientists to ...

Adaptive optics allows one to observe the sky without suffering perturbations from atmospheric turbulence. Now, a French-British team has demonstrated a major improvement of this technology, opening ...

India is a founder member partner of the Thirty Metre Telescope planned for construction on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which is ...