Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Radio telescopes in China, Australia and Japan have been interconnected in real time for the first time using the optical networks of AARNet and its counterparts to enable very high resolution 'images ...

He tried to make a working telescope from scratch, but clear glass kept failing and the first lenses came out flawed. Using recycled glass, a rebuilt kiln, and hand-ground optics, he pushed through ...

When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near a University, and they even had a summer ...

Getting your first telescope should feel exciting, not frustrating. If I avoid a few common beginner mistakes, I can turn that confusing bundle of glass and metal into a tool that reliably shows the ...

At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) using a new Dutch invention — the telescope. In the era when William Shakespeare ...