In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

The Unistellar eQuinox 2 is our telescope experts' pick as the best overall smart telescope, and is now $420 off for Father's ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope doesn’t seem so giant in the renderings, until you see how the mirrors are made. The telescope will require seven total mirrors each 27 feet (8.4 meters) in diameter ...

AGC Plasma Technology Solutions is proud to announce its pivotal role in enabling the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the most ambitious ground-based ...

that means that the telescopes' primary mirror is 6.6 meters across. The bigger the primary mirror of a telescope is, the more light it can collect at one time. A larger mirror can collect more ...

The mirrors expand and collapse ... replete with instructional photos intended to get you using your telescope as fast as possible. Using these friendly instructions, we had the telescope mounted ...