Are streetlamps and other light sources ruining your stargazing? Pick up one of these six portable telescopes and seek out ...

Astronomers have discovered a star being torn apart by a massive black hole more than 1,000 parsecs from the center of its ...

The spectacular night-time display can help ground-based telescopes rival their space counterparts in accurate observations.

For centuries man has been gazing at the stars, noting various anomalies, admiring their beauty, and exploring the vast expanse. Telescopes are generally the tool of choice for stargazing, and even ...

Telescopes orbiting Earth can peer billions of light-years into space to observe incredible phenomena across the cosmos.

Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture incredibly detailed images of the heavens. Unfortunately, they are quite ...

Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars. We can also map where these galaxies sit and trace how the ...

Four giant telescopes developed under Japan's leadership have been completed on a Spanish island as part of an internationa ...

Eye on the sky: the four 23 m-diameter telescopes belong to the Large-Sized Telescope array at the Roque de los Muchachos ...

Of all the objects that you can view through a telescope, some of the most stunning to behold are the planets in our solar system, and the galaxies that lie far beyond it. But if you want to see more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. When you think of a telescope, you think of an enormous long ...

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