For a century, amateur telescope makers have gathered at the Stellafane convention to celebrate their craft. Will the event ...

NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office is actively building the first space telescope designed from scratch to hunt near-Earth objects that could devastate entire cities or regions. The NEO ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon to see and hear the universe more clearly. Lunar telescopes could be even ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit. The James Webb Space Telescope was squeezed inside the nose cone of an Ariane ...

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies – and increasingly by commercial companies – are set to visit the moon by the end of this decade ...

Set #11382 is packed full of miniature scientific instruments.

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade.

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 ...

I recently moved within my university. I was provided with a new workspace at Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, China.My new ...

This Saturday is National Astronomy Day, the semi-annual event that celebrates the observation of the heavens. Science museums, universities, and astronomy groups have various events to pique public ...

A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the solar system—not on Earth but on the far side of the moon.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...