Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across ...

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

Do habitable exoplanets exist that possess life as we know it? Scientists have pondered this longstanding question ever since ...

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

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

These miniature telescopes are useful for all sorts of people, from wildlife photographers to sports followers and birdwatchers. Monoculars provide magnification for a single eye, as opposed to a pair ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

Scientists are deploying two telescopes to detect high-energy neutrinos, also known as ghost particles, under the Mediterranean Sea. The two telescopes are part of the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino ...

TWO of the biggest streamers are poised to go to war with the Beeb for any Gavin & Stacey spin-off by offering multi-million pound deals to the creators. The Sun exclusively revealed this year how ...

A few years ago, a very kind friend gave me a telescope for my birthday. Though I never made much use of it while living in a basement flat in London, UK, I’m now up in Yorkshire with darker ...