Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and making proposals, some with cash from NASA.

Eight years, three states, and two jobs after NASA's 2017 launch of its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, ...

Huge telescopes can be found in many places on Earth and they may one day be joined by a similar model built inside of a literal crater on the moon.

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to be completed by the 2030s.

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 ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The group behind a $1.4 billion telescope planned for Hawaii is applying for a permit to build in Spain as ongoing protests and a human blockade prevent them from ...

Coronal loops are giant arches of superheated plasma guided by the Sun’s magnetic field. These loops can precede solar flares caused by the twisting and snapping of magnetic field lines and release a ...

The telescope, which they hope to launch into low Earth orbit in 2019, would be about the size of a dishwasher; its half-meter main mirror could fit on a coffee table.

HONOLULU (AP) — Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii’s tallest mountain wi… ...

New images from the Webb Telescope revealed methyl cation, or CH3+ molecule, in a young star system in the Orion Nebula 1,350 light-years from Earth.

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...