When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

An ideal beginner telescope that our expert reviewed earlier this year and recommends for those new to astronomy is now over $100 cheaper ahead of Black Friday.

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 ...

An excellent choice for astrophotographers and astronomers at any stage of their skill and experience, this smart telescope is well-designed, solidly built and easy to use. Crucially, it relies on an ...

Originally, the telescope was an optical instrument much like a spyglass, using lenses, mirrors, or some combination of the two. Today, the term "telescope" describes a wide range of instruments using ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

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In January in Monterrey, Mexico, Iván Venzor was one of only a dozen people in the world to glimpse a potential Jupiter-sized planet crossing in front of a distant star. It happened too fast to see by ...

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

Flagstaff, Ariz.- Our home solar system may be down by a planet with the recent reclassification of Pluto, but the number of giant planets discovered in orbit around other stars continues to grow. Now ...

Astronomers from several major research institutions around the world have signed an agreement with astronomers at the University of Hawaii to make use of a revolutionary new survey telescope on ...