China's space agency is building a new space telescope that will rival current top-tier observatories. Known as the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), it will not only be as powerful as the ...

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 ...

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the proposed lunar radio telescope array would feature 7,200 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...