The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...
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First private space telescope to be launched by 2029 – it will be larger than Hubble

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...
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The quest to build a radio telescope that can hear the cosmic dark ages

The catch: It will have to be on the moon ...
Aviation Week

Eric Schmidt Nonprofit To Build, Launch Private Space Telescope

Schmidt Sciences aims to speed up the development of the telescope using modular systems and a "risk-tolerant technical innovation" approach. Credit: Schmidt Sciences The philanthropic organization of ...
Wall Street Journal

A Cosmic Mystery: Is China Building the World’s Biggest Telescope?

Astronomer Robert Kirshner investigates some of the universe’s biggest questions: What happens when a star explodes? Is the universe still expanding? He recently added a new mystery to the list: Is ...