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

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

Perhaps the weirdest-looking Boeing 747 on this list is the YAL-1. Rather than being acquired from an airline, YAL-1 was ...

At 43 years old, Guyon today has a very big telescope to work with. The Subaru observatory, along with 12 others ... (27 feet) reflector is among the largest single-piece mirrors in the world.

Just to make it that little bit more challenging, there's also three different main types of telescopes to look out for. You have the choice of refractor, reflector and catadioptric telescopes ...

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

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

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

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

NASA's powerful Webb Telescope has spotted more than 40 ancient ... which is normally spiral-shaped, into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions." That allowed researchers to see dozens of ...

Day 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the most distant known galaxy. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found a record-breaking distant galaxy observed just 290 ...

Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: an energetic stellar nursery. This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, surrounded by the ...