ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. -- It's a project some say is out of this world... "This is just perfect," explains Roger Joyner. "I can walk outside, open it up." A homemade observatory, that seemed to fit ...

When Rich Lohman decided to move to Woodacre from Alameda County 18 years ago, he was drawn to its rurality and dark night skies. It was the perfect place for the astronomer to spend his evenings ...

From a garden bursting with roses, violets, burgeoning cabbages and broken furniture in the remote West Siberian town of Barnaul rises a rickety wooden tower capped with an aluminum dome. World War II ...

I read the recently published Q&A with Woodacre astronomer Rich Loman with interest (“West Marin man brings the moon, stars and more to others with homemade observatory,” Dec. 18). Like Loman, I moved ...

A self-taught amateur has captured an event astronomers have been trying to see for years – the shock breakout of a supernova. Victor Buso was giving his new CCD camera a trial run in his homemade ...