"Whether you want to explore dark energy, dying stars, galactic powerhouses, or probably even entirely new things we’ve never ...

A newly found icy object, Ammonite, may be a 4-billion-year-old fossil from the Solar System’s edge—and it’s casting doubt on ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

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 ...

Telescopes that capture visible light are known as optical telescopes, and the science done with them is called optical astronomy. But there's an entire electromagnetic spectrum, of which the ...

And larger, more-complex telescopes dot the astronomical landscape today, including the behemoth 409-inch Gran Telescopio Canarias and, of course, space-based telescopes like Hubble and ...

Start exploring the night sky with our top picks for beginner-friendly telescopes. Tested for clarity, ease of use and build quality, these are our favorite models to learn astronomy.

After all, a telescope is nothing more than a large monocular, so whether you buy one or the other for astronomy, it will be down to affordability and portability. Monoculars may not be ...

If you received a telescope for Christmas, or bought one for your kids, your adventures in amateur astronomy are just beginning. Astronomy is the art and science of actually looking at the heavens ...

Buying a telescope, like buying a car or stereo equipment, is subject to your tastes as a consumer. In other words, the choice is up to you — but Astronomy can provide some guidelines to make ...