The second mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope was cast in the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory on Saturday. The Giant Magellan Telescope, which began its design phase for the mirrors in 2005 ...

Pasadena, CA-The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Corporation is pleased to announce that nine astronomical research organizations from three continents have signed the Founders' Agreement to construct ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile (Reuters) – In Chile’s dry Atacama desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called ‘dark energy,’ a ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Consortium* announces that the GMT will be constructed at Cerro Las Campanas, Chile. This location was selected for its high altitude, dry climate, dark skies, and ...

Nine astronomical research organizations from the United States, Australia and Korea have signed an official agreement to construct and operate the Giant Magellan Telescope, or GMT, at Las Campanas ...

This story was updated at 2:22 p.m. ET. The birth of a giant new telescope began with a literal big bang Friday (March 23), in an excavation blast at the peak of a mountain in Chile — the ...

Pasadena, CA-The Australian government has announced that it will provide $88.4 million AUD ($72.4 million USD) to help fund the revolutionary 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) to be sited at ...

Using the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, a research team led by Carnegie’s Andrew Newman and including UC Davis astronomer Brian Lemaux looked for shadows cast by ...

LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, Chile — To walk among the observatory domes of the Atacama Desert is to brush your hair with the stars. The Atacama, on a plateau high in the Chilean Andes, is one of the ...

Engineers began blasting a home for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) on a mountaintop in Chile on Friday. Meanwhile, back in Tucson, the second of two giant mirrors being cast for the GMT is still ...

Central to the race to peer into distant worlds is the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), a $1.8 billion complex being built at the Las Campanas observatory and which will have a resolution 10 times ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile, Nov 1 (Reuters) - In Chile's dry Atacama desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called 'dark energy, ...