NASA is planning a groundbreaking mission: building a massive radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. Discover how this lunar telescope will explore the universe’s origins, detect ancient ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

To aid your own endeavors in this realm, you might consider following [aeropic’s] example in building a capable wireless telescope DSC. Yes, [aeropic] built a capable digital setting circle (DSC ...

There was a time when building a telescope was a rite of passage for budding astronomers, much as building a radio was the coming age for electronics folks. These days, many things are cheaper to ...

(For more on the controversy Galileo spawned, see His Big Mistake.) Building a better refractor The spyglass-turned-telescope had limitations, some of which Galileo was able to design around.

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) will be loaded onto a transatlantic shipping vessel in Antwerp, Belgium, at the end of January for a month-long voyage by sea to its home: Chile, just ...

The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star. But the most entrancing part of the picture — among the ...

This would avoid the challenges of testing and launch-proofing large, complex structures, like habitats and telescopes ... the same kind of material to build a variety of habitat modules.

Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that ... exploring their compositions and building data that could someday aid the search for extraterrestrial life. Despite its many achievements ...