With 274 confirmed moons as of March of 2025, Saturn is the solar system planet with the most natural satellites. By 1789, ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct.

Recently, the international astronomical community celebrated a breakthrough development—the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration released the latest observational results of the supermassive ...

A new observatory with a powerful telescope has just opened in South Wairarapa.

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton is that kind of place – a celestial treasure perched above Silicon Valley that somehow remains off the radar for many Californians despite being one of the most ...

The research center that Lick’s fortune helped create has a visitors center and gift shop open Saturday and Sunday from noon ...

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Amazon is offering 27% off the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ. Perfect for watching Saturn's opposition on Sept. 20.

The James Webb Space Telescope cannot observe Earth directly. It is too bright and could damage the telescope. However, ...

Stargazing has a long history in the UK. It was there that the Royal Greenwich Observatory was founded in 1675. The problem that that country had when observing the sky has to do with its meteorology, ...

In the darkest depths of the ocean, the eerie and elusive telescope fish thrives with alien-like eyes, extendable jaws, and a ...