BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab recently completed a five-year project for the U.S. Air Force, developing designs for a foldable space antennae array that embodies design principles inspired, ...

The NRAO published a radio telescope design a few years ago for use mainly as an educational tool, the Itty Bitty Telescope. It used a satellite TV dish and LNB feeding a signal meter as a simple ...

Explore the night sky with the best telescopes to suit every budget and experience level, perfect for observing February's Snow Moon and spectacular planetary parade. February is a great time to ...

On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/665666 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665666 ABSTRACT.The optical alignment of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is ...

Wendell Burnette Architects, along with a large group of collaborators, have developed the Telescope House in Arizona, United States. The low-impact Telescope House is innovative as a quarterly ...

Alt-azimuth mounts are the most basic, offering a design whereby the telescope is moved in a horizontal or vertical motion to locate objects. These mounts can come in either manual or computerized ...

Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

Researchers just found an unexpected galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The large swirl of stars is known as a grand-design spiral galaxy, and its exceptionally advanced age could ...

But if you have your heart set on purchasing a telescope, here are a few good tips to follow: Go to your local bookstore or newsstand and browse through one of the various astronomy magazines where ...

Dobsonians are based on the reflector telescope design that sees a large primary mirror collect light then reflect it back into a secondary mirror (here's an explainer of the different telescope ...