Foil-lined foam insulation board, scraps of lumber, and a paint-thinner can hardly sound like the tools of a radio astronomer. But when coupled with an SDR, a couple of amplifiers, and a fair ...

Getting a closer look at the Moon isn’t particularly difficult; even an absolute beginner can point a cheap telescope towards our nearest celestial neighbor and get some impressive views.

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

You can spot your prey and rare birds miles away using only one hand with our best-selling handheld telescope. Imagine spotting a pack of deer you never would’ve seen otherwise or, better yet ...

Spherex, an infrared space telescope jointly developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and NASA of the U.S ...

Standing more than 164 feet (50 meters) tall, the tube-like altitude structure will connect the 128-foot (39-meter) primary mirror, M1 — the largest telescope mirror ever made — to the 14-foot ...

From 2035, the Einstein Telescope will be able to study gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy. For the telescope, ...

This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you start stargazing with a telescope, two experiences typically ensue. First, you are astonished by the view ...