Travel easily with the best small telescopes for observing when going on location or sharing with friends and family: Spot ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes.

There are a wide range of telescope types available to buy, and some can cost thousands of pounds. However, there are budget-priced alternatives – most are either refractor or reflector models. Keep ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier telescopes or spacecraft. By Robin George Andrews The vermilion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The HR 8799 system ...

Credit: m-gucci via Getty Images The newly discovered comet is already putting on a show for amateur astronomers with telescopes at the ready. Comet SWAN25F, first spotted in data from the SWAN ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a plume of dust and gas from a newborn star. NASA said in a statement ...

Less than one per cent of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies. Part of the world’s biggest mega-science facility – the SKA ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the first batch of data from the groundbreaking Euclid space telescope, which was built to study the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, it could detect hints of alien life around our closest neighboring star ...

A key goal of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been to see further than ever before into the distant past of our universe, when the first galaxies were forming after the Big Bang ...