The dream of a flat, lightweight telescope lens, where microscopic etchings precisely refract different wavelengths of light, ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have detected a new ultra-faint ...

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

The Dobsonian telescope design was developed by John Dobson in the 1960s, and it quickly took the amateur astronomy world by storm because it made it affordable for people to own a large-aperture ...

Save 23% on what we rate as one of the best telescopes out there. It features a 102mm aperture, a 1325mm focal length, a Maksutov-Cassegrain optical design, smartphone-controlled and it comes with ...

1c). In the nineteenth century, the emergence of diffraction theory enabled telescope builders to understand in more detail the benefits of larger-aperture telescopes — mainly higher sensitivity ...

The Simons Observatory (SO) has completed the installation of its Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) near the summit of Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.The telescope joins the ...

Gaze into the great beyond from your own backyard with the best telescopes for stargazing, where distant galaxies become backyard companions, and the moon feels like a mere stone's throw away.

"Historically, astronomy has left an indelible mark on human society and played a pivotal role in intellectual enlightenment, ...