Things are gearing up for the Giant Magellan Telescope, as its developers enter the final design phase before the project ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope enters a critical phase as funding decisions and final design work determine whether ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The group building what could become the world’s most powerful optical telescope, the Giant Magellan, has a new leader. The GMTO Corporation announced Tuesday that The University of ...

New partnership advances economic growth through astronomy and positionsCoquimbo as Chile’s global hub for science, ...

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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, ...

A next-generation observatory designed to study distant planets and the early universe is approaching a critical stage, with ...

PASADENA, CA – January 13, 2026 – The GMTO Corporation, the international consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, today announced it has appointed Daniel T. Jaffe as president, succeeding ...

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 ...

Scientists using three telescopes spaced thousands of miles apart have caught the best look ever of the center of a distant quasar, an ultra-bright galaxy with a giant black hole at its core. By ...

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 ...