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 ...

Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ as the top pick for basic astrophotography in our best beginner's telescope guide.

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 ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 ...

Themiya Nanayakkara receives funding from Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. Ivo Labbe receives funding from Australian Research Council in the form of a Future Fellowship.

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

Deploying a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a league of its own. On a ship bobbing in the Mediterranean Sea, physicists — not typically known ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...

Equipment includes a unique 20-inch modified Newtonian, and a 14-inch Meade LX200 telescope. The facility is used by NTU students for labs, projects and extracurricular work. It plays host to our ...

The Stephens observatory, located on the roof of Carnegie, houses a 12-inch Newtonian reflecting ... There are also several portable telescopes available for student use, including an eight-inch ...