With so many ways to view the night sky, your choices for beginner telescopes can seem overwhelming. Considerations like aperture, mount type, build quality, and basic design are important, according ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Night sky watcher Daniel Lanpher sent in a photo of his son, Wes, learning to use the family's ...

Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.

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 ...

Whether you’re a curious beginner or gifting one to an aspiring astronomer, Hestia makes space more accessible, fun, and ...

TL;DR: Hestia turns your smartphone into a mini telescope for all your starry nights — on sale for $239.99 through September ...

The two telescopes operate synchronously: Izaña-2 fires laser pulses at a piece of space debris high overhead, and Izaña-1 ...

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. In 1936, Albert Einstein published what he described as a "little ...

With the 2012 holiday season coming into its "home stretch," many people may be seriously considering the purchase of a telescope. You've seen telescope ads in newspapers, junk mail catalogues and on ...