NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office is actively building the first space telescope designed from scratch to hunt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon to see and hear the universe more clearly. Lunar telescopes could be even ...

The concept of a city-sized telescope on the moon has piqued NASA's interest. The space agency recently awarded researchers a grant to further develop the plan for a sprawling array of antennae on 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely ...

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 ...

The world's first telescope, crafted in 1608 by the Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey, led to stunning technologies that would later revolutionize our understanding of the universe. While his ...