Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

As we prepared the best telescopes for beginners, we considered all these types of people. The following telescopes were chosen for being good telescopes for the amateur and for their consistent ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

The observatory’s full name is the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO ... high-energy gamma rays are present in many, many types of very energetic astronomical phenomenon, but we ...

A new kind of space telescope has embarked on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire celestial sky that will catalog the origins of the universe and seek out the ingredients ...

The Celestron StarSense Explorer 8" Dobsonian telescope is a large manual telescope ... (here's an explainer of the different telescope types). In fact NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope ...