They may have to compete with entrepreneurs flocking to the moon for business and mining. Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their ...

On Wednesday, Schmidt Sciences - an organization funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt - ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...

"Because it's awesome" might very well be one of the reasons scientists want to build a giant telescope on the moon, and they wouldn't be wrong; it absolutely would be awesome. Fortunately, there are ...

Willard L. Eccles Foundation Gives $600,000 for New Facility The Willard L. Eccles Foundation donated $600,000 so the University of Utah can build a 32-inch, research-class, optical telescope in ...

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies — and increasingly by commercial companies — are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade ...

People have been gazing skyward at night for all of human history, studying the stars and wondering what could lie beyond them. But soon, scientists will have a powerful new tool at their disposal: ...

What can one expect from 3D printing an 8″ Newtonian telescope? [Molly Wakeling] shares her thoughts after doing exactly that ...

Sensitive equipment and historical artifacts — including the Mills spectrograph used in the observatory’s early days to ...

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After launching on Christmas, the James Webb Space Telescope is closing in on its new home 1 million miles from Earth. A gravitationally stable pocket known as the second Lagrange point, or L2, will ...