After Arecibo collapsed, radio astronomers faced a choice: rebuild the past, or build something radical. One bold idea is the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is currently in the planning phase but could soon become ...

Public opposition to the military’s plan to build up to seven telescopes in a state conservation district atop Haleakalā has been mounting in recent weeks, after the release of a draft environmental ...

Now Lawrence, a community organizer with the group Kāko‘o Haleakalā, is gearing up for another fight as the U.S. Air Force ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct. For his 10″ reflector, [Carl Anderson] once again said “Yolo”— this time ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

On Valentine's Day 1990, from a dark and frozen spot on the outer edges of our solar system, the spacecraft Voyager 1 turned around to take one last photo of the world it left behind. Viewed from a ...

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...