Many telescope makers start because making is cheaper than buying. Here are the coolest DIY telescopes from Stellafane—mirrors and all.

Landman studied telescope design and ultimately learned how to build them from scratch. Now, he enjoys sharing that lifelong passion with his 15-year-old daughter Leané.

Building a DIY telescope is one thing, but building a professional-grade telescope that can robotically track celestial objects is entirely another. London's Open Space Agency has developed a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was a bold idea – a telescope in space. TOP: Illustration showing the outside view of the yet ...

That’s the same leap from large, ground-based telescopes to Hubble, or from a 30-second exposure with a 2-meter telescope to an all-night exposure with the largest telescopes presently in the world.

A DIY radio telescope won't have the power of the CARMA Radio Telescope seen here, but you'll have a view of the sky shared by few others. Share In 2010, on the far northern part of New Zealand ...

The Webb Telescope is designed to build on these observations. Here's an overview of the $10 billion Webb Telescope, what to expect as it prepares for its mission and some of the ways it compares ...

The idea here is that NASA wouldn’t need to build the dish itself when constructing a lunar radio telescope. Instead, the space agency could send a mission to the Moon that would lay a net-like ...