A person kneels on a platform reaching down toward a large, circular container full of glass pieces. To build the Giant Magellan Telescope, engineers constructed seven massive mirrors, the largest ...

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories ...

A cheap DIY telescope came together from PVC, a copier lens, and hardware-store parts, but the real test never happened. After the build worked on the bench, weeks of clouds blocked any sky check. The ...

If you are lucky enough to view a solar eclipse, be sure to do so safely!

Curious about the practical limits of infrared imaging, the independent engineering channel Project 326 developed a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, ...

It’s National Paper Airplane Day! The annual day commemorates the homemade aeronautical toy that has fascinated (and frustrated the less crafty) children and adults for generations. According to ...

NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its aging Swift space telescope will be this fall, so a private spacecraft can boost its altitude.

Astronomers at the University of Missouri, using the James Webb Space Telescope, have uncovered 300 unusually bright cosmic objects that may be some of the earliest galaxies ever formed. By applying ...

A new European-led telescope project, the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST), promises to map parts of ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

A blurry new photo captured by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia shows Artemis II's Orion capsule circling the moon more than 200,000 miles away, making it a candidate for the longest-distance ...