How do I make a telescope? Did you know you can build your own telescope? All you need are two lenses and a few common household items. Depending on your crafting experience, you can complete this fun ...

A DIY maker created a user-friendly folding telescope using a garden gazing ball, winning prizes for design at the Stellafane convention.

Long before Clyde Tombaugh was searching the skies from an observatory in Arizona, he was a farm boy trying to make sense of the night above his family's home. The first telescope he owned was bought ...

This Saturday is National Astronomy Day, the semi-annual event that celebrates the observation of the heavens. Science museums, universities, and astronomy groups have various events to pique public ...

A homemade telescope caught Lowell Observatory’s attention Rather than abandoning the subject, Tombaugh decided to show his planetary drawings to someone who might understand the work he had been ...