Astronomy & Space
390 sites
https://stellafane.org/
Stellafane is the historic home of the Springfield Telescope Makers of Vermont, hosting one of the oldest and most celebrated amateur telescope making conventions in the world. The site offers comprehensive guides on building Dobsonian telescopes and grinding mirrors, a rich archive of convention history, an astrophoto gallery, and resources for beginners getting started in amateur astronomy.
https://deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/
The official University of Maryland archive for NASA's Deep Impact mission, which sent a spacecraft to collide with comet Tempel 1 in 2005 and later extended its mission as EPOXI to observe comet Hartley 2 and distant exoplanets. The site preserves science results, image and video galleries, team member profiles, and mission history through the spacecraft's final loss of contact in 2013.
https://r-clarke.org.uk/
A comprehensive amateur astronomy resource covering the monthly night sky, planetary facts, eclipse details, Messier objects, telescope guides, and an astro dictionary for beginners. The site also extends into amateur radio with club listings, beginner guides, and rally information with GPS postcodes.
https://spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu/fmo-project/overview
The SPACEWATCH® FMO Project, run by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, documents the detection of Fast Moving Objects, which are near-Earth asteroids passing so close that they appear as light trails in telescope imagery. The site explains the science behind close-approach asteroid detection, shares discovery images, and describes the citizen participation program that once helped identify faint FMOs.
http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/
The official homepage of the Liverpool Telescope, a 2.0 metre fully robotic observatory on the Canary Island of La Palma, owned and operated by Liverpool John Moores University. Visitors can find technical guidance on applying for observing time, access data archives, browse recent astronomical discoveries, and follow live telescope status updates.
http://inconstantmoon.com/
Inconstant Moon offers nightly multimedia tours of the lunar surface, complete with maps, photos, animations, and music to guide both beginners and experienced observers through the Moon's craters, seas, and phenomena. A Scientific American Sci/Tech Web Awards honoree and BBC Space featured site, it includes a Cyclopedia Selenica and Selenographia making it a comprehensive reference for lunar astronomy.
http://yearinspace.com/the-week-in-space
The Year In Space is a weekly online calendar that highlights space history, sky events, and astronomical milestones, pairing each entry with detailed write-ups and NASA imagery. Each week features a featured topic such as the discovery of Ceres or the Cassini mission, alongside a day-by-day calendar of notable birthdays, launches, and celestial events.
https://astromag.co.uk/
AstroMag is an informational astronomy website covering celestial bodies, space weather, gamma-ray bursts, eclipses, and deep-space phenomena in accessible language for general readers. Articles span topics from Jupiter's moons to the Kuiper Belt, making complex astronomical concepts approachable without requiring a scientific background.
https://ancient-skies.org/
Ancient-Skies is a collaborative scientific knowledgebase dedicated to documenting how human cultures across history have understood and represented the night sky. The project, launched around the International Year of Astronomy 2009, aims to gather and verify information from primary sources, making cultural astronomy accessible to both the general public and researchers worldwide.
https://spaceprojects.com/NASA
NASAWatch.INFO is an independent, sponsor-free watchdog site that critically examines NASA's bureaucracy, spending, and policies, advocating for commercial spaceflight and government reform. Visitors will find curated links, news articles, congressional bills, scandal coverage, and commentary pushing for a privatized, democratically accountable space program.