Refractor telescopes use specialised lenses to gather and focus light into an image, displaying a magnified sky view. In contrast, reflector telescopes use curved mirrors to reflect light onto the ...

With the best 150-600mm lenses, you have such a versatile zoom range that you can get up close to distant subjects without even having to move your feet. As such, these lenses are especially beloved ...

Dark skies in rural areas offer unmatched visibility, perfect for spotting faint planets. ‘Jeff Bezos has built a moon’: How Blue Origin created lunar gravity without leaving Earth ‘NASA’s ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February ...

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun. Supernovas in the early universe ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...

With three spectacular cosmic events happening, January is the perfect time to pick up a telescope. We've rounded up the best telescopes for beginners, to suit a range of budgets. January is ...

There are two types of telescopes: a lens-based refractor and a mirror-based reflector ... offering an aperture of between 70mm and 150mm. A large telescope for a backyard is considered to ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...