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 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — For months, protesters have held up construction of a $1.4 billion telescope atop a mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii. The state imposed emergency rules making it challenging for ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is currently in the planning phase but could soon become ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $298 million cooperative support agreement to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) to build the 4-meter Advanced Technology ...

From The New Yorker Magazine: A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the solar system—not on Earth but on ...

TRW Inc. won a $824.8 million contract to build the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. TRW Inc. announced Sept. 10 that it won a contract to build the James ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Five institutions from North America and Europe have created a consortium to oversee the building of a 25-meter submillimeter telescope on a high elevation in Chile. When completed in ...

Binoculars, telescopes and telescopic sights : how they work, how to select them, and how to design and build your own / With drawings and photos. by the author, except as otherwise individually ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist’s impression of a moon-forming circumplanetary disk ...

Italian space agency ASI has awarded Thales Alenia Space of Rome and Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio (CGS) of Milan a contract to build the Multi-Element Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy (Metis ...