The largest telescope in the world is called the Gran Telescopio Canarias. It's the biggest optical telescope in the world (radio telescopes can be bigger) and is larger than most houses.

Kolkata groups create largest handmade telescope, low-cost, powerful, and easy to handle, for space research and education.

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

The ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) by ESO, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, features a 39-meter ...

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

What began as a high-tech conference on Maui with 300 attendees more than 25 years ago has grown into a gathering of more than 1,300 people from 25 countries. The Advanced Maui Optical Space ...

A group of scientists and optical observers from two organisations in Kolkata have come together to create a telescope, described as the largest in the city. The 14.5-inch f/5 Dobsonian telescope was ...