Shopping for a junior stargazer? We've picked out the best telescopes for kids, perfect for wowing them with February's planetary parade or next month's breathtaking lunar eclipse. If there's a ...

It used a satellite TV dish and LNB feeding a signal meter as a simple telescope to detect the Sun, and black body radiation from the surrounding objects. It’s a simple design for kids to get ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Learn more › While standard telescopes are certainly cool devices, there is no shame in preferring a telescope for beginners if you’re just starting. Telescopes have multiple moving parts ...

Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles (41.8 million kilometers) from Earth, they are alive ...