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

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

Don Pettit has been at it again. Not content with dazzling earthlings with incredible photos captured from his current home aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut has now ...

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...

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

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

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

In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...

A group of astronomers have made history by capturing an image of a record number of stars from a time when the universe was ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ever-faithful Hubble Space Telescope has been deployed on many missions over its 34 years in ...

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

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 ...