Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...

Telescopes have come a long way since the first one was invented in 1608. So what's the most powerful telescope operating today, and how far can it see? When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

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 ...

Seeing the stars or the moon doesn’t have to be complicated; even a beginner can do it with the right scope. By John Alexander Published Feb 27, 2025 9:15 AM EST We may earn revenue from the products ...

From magnification to light-gathering, here’s how to make the decision between buying a telescope or a monocular for stargazing and astronomy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Black Friday is dead! All hail Cyber Monday! The good news is that if you've been looking for a telescope, either for yourself or as a gift, you can still save hundreds with some stellar Cyber Monday ...

Hubble. Webb. Chandra. Spitzer. Rubin. Roman. And now, Simonyi. With the ramping up of the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Microsoft software architect Charles ...

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...

Back in the early 2000s, when I was butting heads seemingly every week with people who believed the Apollo moon landings were faked, such individuals would pull out an argument they thought was their ...