Yet another proposal would use SpaceX's Starship to build a lunar base-hotel-telescope hybrid featuring a mega-observatory stronger than the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ...

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

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

Figure 1: Key optical innovations in astronomy. The drive was then on to build bigger and more powerful telescopes with greater magnification. It was soon realized that what was to become known as ...

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 ...

Wendell Burnette Architects, along with a large group of collaborators, have developed the Telescope House in Arizona, United States. The low-impact Telescope House is innovative as a quarterly ...

One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...

You don't have to break the bank to make the most of February's skywatching. We've got the best budget telescopes under $500, just in time to observe the moon and Venus's convergence. Telescopes ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...