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Visit the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, Parkes Observatory and the isolated Australia Telescope Compact Array. Plus, guided stargazing and astrophotography with local expert ...

and Parkes, New South Wales. It was Richard Woolley, then at Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra and subsequently Britain’s 11th Astronomer Royal, who floated the idea of a large, jointly funded ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

After six decades during which it tracked lunar missions, spotted distant pulsars and quasars, and even expanded our concept of the size of the Universe, the Parkes telescope is still going strong.

We've discovered the best early Black Friday telescope deals as several of the best models are discounted in the build-up to the annual sales event. If you're looking for pre-Black Friday ...

The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission. NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel ...

The December 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico came at the end of a 39-month sequence that began with Hurricane Maria in 2017, according to a new report from the National ...

The best spots on the Moon for lunar bases are the same spots where scientists want to build telescopes − can these two interests coexist? Projects under NASA’s CLPS program – including the ...