Asteroid mining is a potential trillion-dollar industry, but before any prospectors start fitting their mules for spacesuits, surveying is going to be more important than extraction. To help find out ...

Learn about color and how to create a spectroscope using simple materials. What is color? Learn about light and wavelengths and what creates color in this episode of Camp GPB. Then learn how to build ...

Two recent events – one legal and the other technological – have brought asteroid mining a step closer to reality. The legal development came about when the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation ...

Here at Hackaday, we love to see projects re-visited and updated after we’ve covered them on the site. It’s always exciting to see what the creators come up with next, and this Pi-Based Spectrometer ...

ANOTHER point was also very obvious to those who are familiar with these inquiries, namely, that if these prominences really consisted of gas, by the use of a powerful spectroscope it was perfectly ...

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

THIS volume contains a fair amount of information useful to those wishing to purchase and set up spectroscopic apparatus for chemical research, but it seems to us to be ill-assorted and indifferently ...

Play around with optics long enough and sooner or later you’re probably going to want a spectrometer. Optical instruments are famously expensive, though, at least for high-quality units. But a useful ...

Amateur solar observing has an exciting new tool. The Lhires Lite spectroscope breaks sunlight into a rainbow of colors crossed by dark lines. For two centuries, professional astronomers have used ...