A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...

The University of Michigan has been announced as one of two American institutions helping with the design and construction of ...

From the time Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609, until the dawn of the space age on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, the world's first ...

After completing thermo-vacuum testing, EON Space Labs’ telescope will take a test flight with TakeMe2Space in December 2025.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The moon is a satellite that revolves at a position about 380,000 km away from the earth, and in various aspects such as creating the ebb and flow of the tide by the attractive force, slowing the ...