So we gathered 10 telescopes (and one pair of binoculars), and after five months of star parties, we think the Celestron NexStar 5SE is the best telescope for a curious amateur.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — Linking the twin, 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory discovered an extended, double-layered dust disk orbiting 51 Ophiuchi, a star that is ...

The lab will have 13 months to develop a low-orbit telescope that will be part of a space mission expected to launch in 2027 ...

The rate of human-produced light is increasing in the night sky by as much as 10% per year, making it difficult for ...

Big telescopes on big launchers In 2021, the National Academies released a once-in-a-decade review of the top astronomy and astrophysics priorities for the US science community. In this survey ...

American astronomers on Thursday called for the nation to invest in a new generation of “extremely large” multibillion-dollar telescopes that would be bigger than any now on Earth or orbiting ...