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 ...

Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their next giant telescope. They're already drafting blueprints and making proposals — some ...

A personal project shared November 18, 2025 by developer and hobbyist Lucas Sifoni documents the designing and testing of a very compact, fully functional Dobsonian telescope, which was built with ...

"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 ...

You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X worth of optics, but it ...

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 ...

Those of a certain generation grew up in an era where space travel and discoveries were fascinating topics. A lot of young boys and girls dreamed of becoming astronauts and going into space to make ...

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.

Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets ...