After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

It's a delicate process in which science meets craftsmanship in the Chilean desert. Night after night in the dry air of Chile's Atacama Desert, fine dust and pollutants settle on the aluminum coating ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct. For his 10″ reflector, [Carl Anderson] once again said “Yolo”— this time ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a rectangular design that can separate a planet’s faint glow from its blinding star.

UA optical scientists are set to begin almost two years of high-precision polishing and grinding work on a 4.3-meter mirror that will form the core of a $40 million Discovery Channel telescope near ...

IN THIS IN THIS WEEK'S "THIS IS OUR HOME", WE'RE SETTING OUR SIGHTS TO THE STARS. A LOCAL ASTRONOMY CLUB... BUILDING TELESCOPES AND COMMUNITY... FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. WE TAKE YOU TO SOUTHERN ...

FREWSBURG – The Martz-Kohl Observatory will present “The Language of Binoculars” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 18. Gary Nelson, an optical expert and former observatory president, will make the ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them. Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise mirrors ...

One morning last week scientists, foremen and loyal workmen at Corning (N. Y.) Glass Works looked anxiously up at a grey, wintry sky, hoped the threat of snow would not materialize, for momentous and ...