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 ...

Watch Amber Straughn discuss the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope—the Hubble’s heir—on Wednesday at 7 PM ET The Hubble Space Telescope is iconic, a tool that has allowed scientists to ...

When it comes to telescopes, unless you're a pirate trying to fit your spyglass back in your shirt after spotting land, bigger is always better. A larger telescope means more collected light, which ...

NASA scientists are currently working on plans to build a giant radio telescope in a nearly mile-wide crater on the "dark side" of the moon. If approved, it could be constructed as early as the 2030s ...

Two Canadian companies will help build a key component of NASA's next telescope. The U.S. space agency plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope in 2011. Astronomers hope the telescope will help ...

SFU scientists are among a team of researchers from universities across Canada that has received a multimillion-dollar government grant to build a state-of-the-art neutrino telescope off the B.C.

That’s no moon. It’s a … moon with a telescope on it. NASA has unveiled a plan to build a massive radio telescope on the moon in a project that appears to borrow from the design of the ...