Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on ...

They may have to compete with entrepreneurs flocking to the moon for business and mining. Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their ...

The Richard F Caris Mirror Lab in Tucson is actually attached to the UA football stadium, with some parts being below seats ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is currently in the planning phase but could soon become ...

"Because it's awesome" might very well be one of the reasons scientists want to build a giant telescope on the moon, and they wouldn't be wrong; it absolutely would be awesome. Fortunately, there are ...

MOST is unlike any spectroscope ever built. It can unravel the light of 2,400 celestial objects simultaneously into 18,000 ...

CROWD SOURCING: Planetary Resources, which has been busy developing an initial prototype of its prospective space telescope, the Arkyd-100, is going public with a pitch for so-called crowd-sourcing of ...

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement surrounding the prospect of humans returning to the Moon, both ...

HONOLULU–Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Wednesday voted to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano, the latest observatory project ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

NASA launched a balloon imaging telescope last week to look for evidence of dark matter in the universe. Researchers at Princeton University built the device. It floated 20 miles up and is already ...

In May 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) encountered a problem. The giant observatory, perched 1 million miles from Earth, has a honeycomb-like configuration of mirror panels to see the ...