Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct.

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 ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Eight years, three states, and two jobs after NASA's 2017 launch of its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, telescope toward the International Space Station, a UI graduate research ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of their oldest tools: the telescope’s mirror. A new study led by Dr. Heidi Newberg of ...

On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn's "Death Star" moon, Mimas. Of course, "Star ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine ...

At this point, it's absolutely a contrarian position and not a rational one, but I think that could have been largely avoided if NSF and other government agencies had not spent the last 50 years ...