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A stressed spouse revealed something quite dirty about their husband's telescope usage in their big old apartment in the sky.

Spouse Alarmed by What “Stargazing” Husband Is Really Doing With Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

An entire crowd of people lined up and even started holding up traffic earlier this week — to gaze at Saturn through a telescope.

Man Sets Up Telescope in NYC, Attracts Huge Crowd Letting People Peer Into It

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in Europe are gearing up for the much-anticipated launch of Euclid, a telescope designed to track dark matter.

Europe Is About to Launch a Dark Matter-Hunting Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We caught up with astronomer Garth Illingworth to talk about the James Webb Space Telescope, distant galaxies, and the ever-evolving scientific process.

The JWST’s Data Is So Incredible That Even Those Who Built It Are Questioning Previous Science

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers suggest we could use existing quantum computing methods to build massive telescopes the size of entire planets.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Propose Planet-Sized Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has approved development of the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to hunt out potentially life-threatening asteroids approaching our planet.

NASA to Build an Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope

By Tony Ho Tran

Watch the James Webb Space Telescope Open Its Massive, Golden Mirrors

James Webb Space Telescope

Watch the James Webb Space Telescope Open Its Massive, Golden Mirrors

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of astronomers have brought a wild concept back from the grave: a liquid-mirror telescope, 100 meters in diameter, built on the surface of the Moon.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Propose Giant “Liquid Mirror” Telescope on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An advanced telescope currently being built in Australia will give astronomers a far more detailed glimpse of cosmic events.

Science & Energy

New Telescope Will Watch Entire Southern Sky in Infrared

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is funding research for a conceptual telescope called a "solar gravitational lens" that could observe distant exoplanets at an astonishing resolution.

NASA Telescope Idea Could Spot Vegetation on Distant Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

Columbia University's David Kipping thinks we could transform Earth's atmosphere into a planet-sized telescope he'd dubbed the "terrascope."

Science & Energy

Astronomer: We Can Use Earth’s Atmosphere as a Massive Telescope

By Kristin Houser

Despite "less than 0.3% of the budget of large international projects," a team of Japanese astronomers found a tiny object at the edge of our Solar System.

Astronomers Find Rare, Distant Space Object With $3,000 Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Construction has begun on the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), a telescope that will be the most powerful in the world once completed in 2024.

Science & Energy

We’ll Soon Have A Telescope That Will Show Us the Edge of the Universe

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX Just Launched NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope (Gee I Wonder What They’ll Find)

SpaceX Just Launched NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope (Gee I Wonder What They’ll Find)

By Claudia Geib

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Technical, Budget Problems Will Delay the James Webb Telescope Again

James Webb Space Telescope

Technical, Budget Problems Will Delay the James Webb Telescope Again

By Chelsea Gohd