These are the best telescopes to view planets, stars and galaxies. Beginner and professional models available.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative answer by analyzing scientific publications and their ...

ESA's Euclid space telescope has been providing valuable data from the depths of space for almost two years. With its help, the largest and most accurate 3D map of the universe to date is to be ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by several telescopes. This approach, known as long-baseline interferometry, ...

Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space observatory, and the James Webb Space ...

Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...

A student at New Mexico State University is showing how you can use pretty much anything to create something. Saul Hernandez made a radio telescope that can detect the ...

This is Olaf Scholten, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has observed radio wave-emissions originating from a commercial airliner, most likely caused by the ...