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

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For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

He tried to make a working telescope from scratch, but clear glass kept failing and the first lenses came out flawed. Using recycled glass, a rebuilt kiln, and hand-ground optics, he pushed through ...

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 ...

At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) using a new Dutch invention — the telescope. In the era when William Shakespeare ...

A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil fuels. If you have ever seen the Milky Way in the night sky, you probably noticed that it looks ...