Explore the night sky with the best telescopes to suit every budget and experience level, perfect for observing February's snow moon and spectacular planetary parade. February is a great time to ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted ... Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

Shopping for a junior stargazer? We've picked out the best telescopes for kids, perfect for wowing them with February's planetary parade or next month's breathtaking lunar eclipse. If there's a ...

space telescope resting in the airtight ... So before you enter the room, you first must stand in a chamber that blows high-powered, compressed air at you from head to toe, sweeping you clean.

A “go-to” telescope might persuade you that it can automatically slew to hundreds of must-see objects without you even knowing the night sky. Firstly, that’s wrong—you need to know your ...

The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the deepest realms of the universe. The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the James Webb Space ...

The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence of potential life on planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - and peer back in time to look for the ...