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 ...

China and Brazil have begun building a joint laboratory for space technologies, Chinese state-owned defence electronics firm ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...

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 ...

Astronomers in Chile have been building the world's most powerful telescope high up in the Atacama desert. The Alma (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope facility involves the ...

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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 ...

TRW Inc. won a $824.8 million contract to build the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. TRW Inc. announced Sept. 10 that it won a contract to build the James ...