Zhuang Mingyang, a 10-year-old boy from Guangdong Province, has amazed Chinese social media users after building a working ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. February 9: The Moon reaches Last Quarter Visible in Scorpius before dawn, our waning satellite is close to the ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

Discover how to build an automatic fruit and vegetable peeler from scratch! This in-depth video covers every step, from woodworking an octagonal plywood base and adding a PVC support, to assembling a ...

The Hesta is not a telescope, at least not in the conventional sense, and on its own it's not a smart instrument, either — it contains no computer and no moving parts. Basically, when coupled with a ...

Since the resolution of a telescope depends on the wavelength size, radio telescopes have to be huge. It would take a radio dish nearly 10 kilometers wide to get the resolution of a large optical ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope by NASA gives a glimpse into a black hole within the Circinus Galaxy. The Circinus Galaxy is 13 million light-years from Earth. NASA said it’s long been ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a number of new observatories, including a space telescope dubbed “Lazuli.” ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new evidence that sheds light on what scientists know about black holes. Launched more than four years ago, the infrared observatory, and successor to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new evidence that sheds light on what scientists know about black holes. Launched ...

On Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stuffed with cargo carried a brand new NASA telescope into space, where it was observed deploying in Sun-synchronous orbit, the agency later confirmed. Dubbed ...