A new compact X-ray telescope may finally give scientists the first complete map of the Moon’s elemental composition, ...

I stuck to my "no telescope" rule for years, right up until a trip to New Brunswick's dark-sky corridor a few years ago, when ...

A lightweight new X-ray telescope could finally give scientists something they’ve never had before: a complete chemical map ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

The Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory is an easy-to-use smart telescope that will allow you to produce stunning ...

Tokyo Metropolitan University's new compact X-ray telescope concept might maps the moon's full chemical composition from a ...

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 ...

When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American My research centers on the search for the ...

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