It sits roofless, doorless and empty, but it has passed the test of time. Built nearly 30 years ago by the U.S. Navy Construction Battalions _ commonly called the Seabees _ the tiny building on the ...

Regardless of their interest in astronomy, visitors to Chris Krstanovic's home want to look through his telescope. Krstanovic recently built an observatory at his house in Windham, N.H. Before he ...

ROCKWOOD, Texas – During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like bland, oversize backyard sheds. Several large ...

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...