The TMT project is back under consideration for federal support, but it must complete a final design phase without taxpayer assistance.

ATLAS is back on the map. Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be captured by anyone with basic viewing equipment.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Exoplanets are far too small and dim compared with their parent star to be observed directly. Instead, space- and ground-based telescopes use one of two inferential methods. The first, known as the ...

When you have been an amateur astronomer as long as I have (the sky caught my interest in 1956), you have seen a lot of celestial history. I like to think of it as having lived during the most amazing ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has quietly crossed a threshold that turns a long‑planned mission into a near‑term reality: construction is complete and the observatory is entering its final ...

A new proposal to build telescopes on Haleakalā's summit is reigniting a fight that has been ongoing for more than a decade.

Following weeks of escalating public opposition, the Maui County Council now stands in unanimous opposition to the military’s plan to build up to seven telescopes in a state conservation district atop ...

In the last two to three years the world of amateur telescopes has been turned on its head. The advances in technology have been beyond incredible. Honestly, it’s been hard to keep up with it all. As ...

ROCKWOOD, Texas – During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like bland, oversize backyard sheds. Several large ...