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.

He built increasingly powerful telescopes, ultimately building devices capable of magnifying the cosmos to 30 times their original size. Galileo used his devices to rewrite humanity's ...

Matt Rourke / AP Images Galileo improved upon the original telescope design. His telescopes magnified images by 8 to 30 times. Granger Collection, New York Some scholars were disturbed by Galileo ...

At nearly 10,000 feet above sea level - and almost 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) from Rome - you’ll find the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), part of the Mount Graham ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo ... The telescope's original October 1986 launch was ...

Once described as the most important telescope in history after the original built by Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope has offered humanity an unrivalled window into the stars around us.