From magnification to light-gathering, here’s how to make the decision between buying a telescope or a monocular for ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

It was soon realized that what was to become known as chromatic aberration was a limiting factor in refracting telescopes, and that this could be overcome by making lenses with longer focal length ...

For stargazers and wildlife watchers, monoculars can be an effective alternative to telescopes or binoculars. Here's how they ...

James Woods has lost his Pacific Palisades home in the Southern California fires that continue to devastate parts of Los Angeles. Speaking on CNN, the 77-year-old “Vampires” and “Once Upon a Time in ...

While, therefore, the micro-telescope and the ordinary telescope with erecting eyepiece have the same sequence and function of lenses, and each gives an erect image, yet in proportions and ...

The powerful, Tucson-born infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope have notched another record for long-range viewing: ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this ...