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 ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

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 ...

Plans for the telescope date to 2009, when scientists first selected Mauna Kea. The project won a series of approvals from Hawaii, including a permit to build on conservation land in 2011.

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we 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 ...

Now, a group of amateur astronomers has secured NASA grant funding to give the lenses from the old telescope new life. They’re working to build a new telescope to track asteroids that could be ...

Astronomers have long sought to find the origin of the building blocks of life, and how elements like carbon, which are ...

(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.

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 ...