China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years ...

PLANS for a timber building to be used for dark skies astronomy events in the Lake District have been given the go-ahead.

Set to launch no earlier than 2026, the telescope will feature a primary mirror with a diameter of 6.6 feet (2 meters). Even though that's slightly smaller than the width of the Hubble Space ...

Chinese scientists propose constructing a 7,200-antenna radio telescope on the moon's far side to explore ultra-long cosmic ...

Scientists in China have proposed building a radio telescope array on the moon’s far side, which, if approved, could become the first operational lunar radio observatory. The array would consist ...

Figure 1: Key optical innovations in astronomy. The drive was then on to build bigger and more powerful telescopes with greater magnification. It was soon realized that what was to become known as ...

NASA will soon be launching a new space telescope with an epic mission ... and it may even clarify the origin of some of the building blocks of life itself. As an astrophysics mission, the ...

There was a time when building a telescope was a rite of passage for budding astronomers, much as building a radio was the coming age for electronics folks. These days, many things are cheaper to ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...