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 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 ...