Now, NASA’s dreaming even bigger. What if it could build a big radio telescope up on the Moon? NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using a number of cooperative rovers.

Any radio telescope on the moon's back end would ... in a giant triangle across a lunar crater. Like its L-shaped counterparts on Earth, LILA would precisely monitor its lasers so that a ...

Several ideas are also hovering regarding these endeavours, one of them is installing a giant telescope on the lunar surface.

The two new telescopes will better support China's lunar exploration projects and radio astronomy research, the observatory said. Located in the northeastern and southwestern parts of China ...

One such project is the suggested NASA Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) which would turn an entire lunar crater into a massive, 1 km diameter radio telescope. Proposed construction approach for ...

There are thousands of lunar craters that can be seen and enjoyed with a telescope. But some are prominent enough to be seen by smaller instruments such as binoculars. As the phase of the Moon ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

he succeeded in constructing a Newtonian telescope capable of clearly viewing the moon's surface, all at a cost of just 70 yuan ($9.6). Ma said that the moment he saw the craters on the moon's ...