Cleaning your telescope's delicate mirrors the wrong way is a sure way to damage them. But it's not hard to use the right materials and get those mirrors clean.

Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As anyone who’s ...

After numerous delays and a threat of potential cancelation, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was successfully launched from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on Dec. 25, 2021 aboard the ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Beth Fabinsky, SPHEREx's deputy project manager, about the upcoming launch of a new telescope.