From magnification to light-gathering, here’s how to make the decision between buying a telescope or a monocular for ...

It includes two eyepieces (25mm and 10mm) a 3x Barlow lens for up-close views ... You have the choice of refractor, reflector and catadioptric telescopes, and while that say seem a daunting ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

View the planets and night skies from home - Heavens above! Your guide to the best telescopes for stargazing, created for all ...

The Berlin Public Library has announced that it has received a library telescope, thanks to the New Hampshire Astronomical Society’s Library Telescope Program.

The Subaru’s 8.2-meter (27 feet) reflector is among the largest single-piece mirrors in the world. (Operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the telescope has no affiliation ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As uncontrolled blazes have turned large swaths of Los Angeles into hellscapes the last week, Associated Press photographers have been on the frontlines. They have captured ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

The powerful infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope have notched another ... it acts as a micro-lens, in addition to the macro-lensing effect of the galaxy cluster as a whole.” ...

One of these missions is the Outer Planet Atmosphere Legacy (OPAL) project, which involves Hubble making yearly observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to understand their atmospheric ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...