Why it made the cut: This mount offers a great balance of portability and maneuverability while also being great at ...

"The search is on and we're using all the telescopes we can to look for it." Han and his colleagues realized that this black hole must exist when they were studying so-called hypervelocity stars.

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night sky in more detail. The best telescopes unlock the wonders of the night sky right from your backyard and beyond. Bring the Moon and planets into ...

This telescope can be folded down and comes with ... BBC Sky At Night Magazine recommends the Sky-Watcher SkyMax 180 Pro Maksutov as one of the top options for catching the planetary alignment ...

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 2025 ...

NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The SPHEREx telescope is relatively small but will provide a humongous ...

Credit: NASA NASA is gearing up for an exciting launch with SPHEREx, a space telescope designed to uncover the history of the universe while searching for signs of life. Hitching a ride on the same ...

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Deanne Fisher receives funding from the Australian Research Council. NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made.

A new kind of space telescope has embarked on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire celestial sky that will catalog the origins of the universe and seek out the ingredients ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...