Universe

Just a small tease of the complicated time-keeping components on the Brick Technology LEGO clock

Electronics

Eternal clock tracks seconds to eons, via shockingly simple components

Watch this video of a working Lego clock that uses gear trains, a pendulum escapement, falling-weight power, and solar-driven rewinding to operate a multi-stage calendar and billion-year counter.

The Spitzer space telescope has peered through dust and gas to establish a new value for the Hubble Constant (Image: NASA)

Space Systems

Spitzer space telescope observations reveal expansion rate of the Universe

Infrared observation by the Spitzer space telescope have allowed astronomers to determine the most accurate and precise estimate to date of the Hubble constant - the rate at which our Universe is expanding.

The European XMM-Newton X-ray telescope in Earth orbit (Image: ESA)

Space Systems

X-ray telescope to shed light on dark energy

The eROSITA X-ray telescope will search for black holes and dark matter, and may help explain why the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing down.

The Meade ETX-LS automatic self-aligning telescope

Photography

Universe made simple with release of Meade ETX-LS automated telescope

The Meade ETX-LS automatic self-aligning telescope is now shipping.