Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

China’s plan to build a radio telescope at the Félix Aguilar Astronomical Observatory in Argentina has been halted by ...

This is a milestone for both Eosol (a company specialising in engineering services) and Compoxi (specialising in the design and production of composite materials), which will be responsible for ...

Astrophysics is, as many astrophysicists will tell you, the story of everything. The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to ...

Middle Tennessee State University is in the process of soliciting bids from contractors to build a new observatory complex on campus. In addition to expanding the existing conventional observatory and ...

The University of Michigan has been announced as one of two American institutions helping with the design and construction of ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

The Royal Astronomical Society today welcomed the in principle decision to proceed to construct the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). When complete in 2022 E-ELT will be the largest optical ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy. In this image ...