Yes, it is theoretically possible to use telescopes to see if the moon landings were real, but practically no. It would take an incredibly powerful telescope to see signs of moon landings on the lunar surface, and even the best...

Sometimes, the acceptance of a lack of knowledge is far more valuable than conjecture. That being said, let’s talk about what we do know, because regardless, it is very weird.

This video shows how to build a simple refracting telescope, also called a monocular or a spyglass, using two lenses. One lens is double convex (converging) and one is double concave (diverging). This results in a magnified right-side-up...

How did Hubble discover the expansion of the universe?

What does ALMA stand for? Is it a huge telescope? Does the ALMA look for planets that might have life? What spectrum of light is difficult to observe? Why are there so many telescopes and why are they so big? Are antenna expensive? Where...

Engineers recently revealed to the public the massive array of gold mirrors that will be the heart of the next generation space telescope. The James Webb Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope's successor, will house the largest mirror ever...

What are the different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum? When seen, what can invisible light reveal? What discovers has the VLA found so far? How do astronomers spend their time?<br/>
The Very Large Array Telescope, Part 2

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Astronomers say they caught a glimpse of the biggest explosion in the cosmos ever observed by X-ray and radio telescopes. <br/>

NASA has renamed its next-generation Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope after Nancy Roman, the agency’s first chief astronomer known as the Mother of Hubble.

NASA has for the first time confirmed the presence of molecular water on sunlit regions of the Moon, according to a study published in the latest issue of Nature Astronomy.

This video will cover how to get into space research (such as astrophysics or astronomy) and some research th

at is going on.

For those looking into space related majors, your best options are astronomy...

Physics Girl astrophysics series - Brown Dwarfs are among the most recently observed objects in the universe. They have at MOST 8% the mass of the Sun. The lower mass boundary is not known! So they are halfway between stars and gas giant...

Dark Matter is one of the biggest mysteries of our universe. It makes up more than a quarter of our universe, but what is it? And how do we know it's there? Find out about dark matter in this video.

Originally aired on February 27, 2009, a conversation on the Kepler Mission with Principal Investigator William Borucki, Deputy Principal Investigator David Koch, and Kepler Science Council Member Alan Boss from the Carnegie Institute of...

The James Webb Space Telescope, which launched Dec. 25, will allow us to see the farthest galaxies and better understand the origins of the Milky Way. Aaron Yung at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is preparing for these historic...

A conversation about NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and the Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph (EXES) science instrument with Matthew Richter, Principle Investigator, and Edward Montiel, Postdoctoral...

In this fourth episode of a five-part series about NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, we look at the LCRD ground segment, which consists of infrastructure in Hawaii, California, and New Mexico.

Scientists believe there are oceans buried under thick crusts of ice on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Sampling them would raise hope of life beyond Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope is going to open a new window into the universe. It will show us stars, galaxies, planets, and other objects as we’ve never seen them before. In the first of four episodes of our mini-series, we focus on...

NASA is funding an early-stage concept to build a giant telescope in a crater on the far side of the moon through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, the space agency announced on April 7.

Winter at the South Pole. Six months of darkness. Ice, far as the eye can see. Sub-zero temperatures…and no flights, in or out, from February to October.



But none of that has deterred Astrophysicist Robert Schwarz, of the...

Recently NASA launched a large, powerful telescope into space, where scientists hope it will help them learn more about the origins of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope is designed to study invisible light waves, which will...

The Nobel Prize is often viewed as the ultimate achievement in science. But to what extent would you go to win it? In 2014, astronomer Dr. Brian Keating invented BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made. Using this, he...