Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. What telescope should I buy? It’s been a much-Googled question this pandemic according to Sky & Telescope, which reports that ...

Credit: NASA / JPL / Ames Research Center / Daniel Rutter illustration The James Webb Space Telescope will soon begin a massive study of rocky worlds outside the solar system, specifically to ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

Whether you want to catch a glimpse of Venus and Mars or take a look at even more distant worlds, the best telescopes for seeing planets will give you the most satisfaction. Planets are a great ...

The best telescopes for various purposes and budgets — from beginner to smart telescopes and everything in between. Black Friday is next month, so there's plenty of scope for a great deal.

Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational ...

The best telescopes offer an unparalleled view of the cosmos, and we've gathered our favorites as we look toward Black Friday next month. The best telescope can help bring the wonders of the ...

US and European X-ray telescopes had spied a curious curved edge to it. The speculation was that this might be the wall of a cavity that had been sculpted in its plasma by emissions from a ...

Prime Day may be over, but there are still deals to be had. As we look ahead to Black Friday, here are some of the best telescope deals still live today. When you purchase through links on our ...

Nasa’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope discovered several rocky exoplanets orbiting a star known as TRAPPIST-1. But now, ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational ...