A student at New Mexico State University is showing how you can use pretty much anything to create something. Saul Hernandez made a radio telescope that can detect the ...

Succeeded where higher tech could not. A NASA experiment was saved thanks to a bus-load of cheap and cheerful Raspberry Pis. NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) launched on ...

For those who love astronomy, both the joy and difficulty of the activity are sitting by your telescope for long hours, continually checking and adjusting it. You may also juggle different software, ...

As beautiful as the field of astronomy can be, it can also be a bit of a hassle and a headache. While you can capture spectacular astrophotography shots with an iPhone, high-level astronomy, requires ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is not just a remarkable feat of engineering; it’s a beautiful one too. Take its 18 hexagonal mirrors made from gold-plated beryllium, which inspired YouTube’s Cellar ...

Scientific balloons have proven to be one of the more useful tools that NASA employs to collect data on Earth's high altitudes, weather patterns, and our universe. Established over 30 years ago, ...

The amateur astronomy world got a tremendous boost during the 1960s when John Dobson invented what is now called the Dobsonian telescope. Made from commonly-sourced materials and mechanically much ...