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 ...

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

The new MOTHRA telescope hopes to reveal the “cosmic web”, which huge network of gas and dark matter that connects galaxies ...

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 ...

NASA scientists are currently working on plans to build a giant radio telescope in a nearly mile-wide crater on the "dark side" of the moon. If approved, it could be constructed as early as the 2030s ...

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 ...

The concept of a city-sized telescope on the moon has piqued NASA's interest. The space agency recently awarded researchers a grant to further develop the plan for a sprawling array of antennae on the ...

The pick-up. I was trying to get a feel for the practical size of the radio telescope. Even with HLS, I wouldn't expect them to start with an Arecibo sized system. A phased array for 15m signals would ...