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 ...

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 ...

India and are catapulting to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join as partners in a Hawaii telescope that will be the world's largest when it's built later this decade. India ...

NASA is funding research into how a radio telescope could be built on the far side of the moon. It could function similarly to the Arecibo telescope, which collapsed in December. A lunar telescope ...

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 ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), which is Africa’s largest optical telescope and one of the most powerful in the ...

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 ...

Et d'une pour le télescope spatial James Webb (JWST), qui a découvert sa première exoplanète dans l'univers proche, grâce à une méthode d'observation prometteuse pour détecter des planètes d'une ...

Prenez note que cet article publié en 2023 pourrait contenir des informations qui ne sont plus à jour. Le télescope spatial européen Euclid a décollé samedi pour tenter d'élucider une des plus grandes ...

Hawaii's land board on Thursday granted a construction permit for a giant telescope on a mountain that Native Hawaiians consider sacred, a project that has divided the state. The $1.4 billion Thirty ...