This Saturday is National Astronomy Day, the semi-annual event that celebrates the observation of the heavens. Science museums, universities, and astronomy groups have various events to pique public ...

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 ...

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 the far side of the moon.

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TL;DR: Get the Vespera Pro Smart Telescope for $2,690 and save $300 with code SMART until October 20 — pick a target, watch detail build in real time, and keep high-resolution celestial images ready ...

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 ...

From nebulas and galaxies to star clusters, the sun and the moon, here’s what to image in the night sky using a smart ...