The Vaonis Vespera II, priced at $1,590, redefines tabletop telescopes with its smart, automated design. Its 50mm aperture ...

Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

But for older kids, or children who are already serious about astronomy, you might want to look at spending more: You can easily find a good quality telescope between $200-$300, sometimes less.

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its groundbreaking 10-year astronomy mission.

Telescopes are not inherently better at looking into space than binoculars. Yes, astronomers’ telescopes, with their gigantic lenses and sturdy support systems, are more powerful than binoculars ...

How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing telescopes into astronomy is to make distant things more visible.

Astronomers Stephen Levine and Gerard van Belle (both near center) prepare our group of a dozen for a night of observing with the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope in the instrument’s control room ...

LOS ANGELES — Amateur astronomer William Bianco doesn’t huddle over a backyard telescope to hunt for undiscovered planets. He logs onto his computer.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

That's a telescope and the astronomer at Washburn, Jim Lattice, well, he turns to me, and he said, well, I'll look through it from the studios of Cincinnati public radio.