Which refractor telescope is best? Space has intrigued humankind ever since we looked skyward for the first time. While it is difficult to imagine what our ancestors thought of the twinkling lights, ...

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

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 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved an unprecedented feat: capturing the sharpest image ever recorded of a distant star’s disk—without using a telescope array. The breakthrough was made possible by a novel ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...