The 100AZ is our best telescope for beginners, with a host of user-friendly features, and it's also just hit the best price ...

In the last two to three years the world of amateur telescopes has been turned on its head. The advances in technology have ...

Columnist John Breunig fills a time capsule with moments from the opening of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center's new ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

It’s the grand narrative of how optics transformed human vision and understanding of the universe, showing how a simple desire to read better by candlelight eventually led to humanity peering into the ...

Join the celebration of the Southern African Large Telescope's 20-year journey, where groundbreaking discoveries and international collaboration have transformed our understanding of the cosmos.

Silver was worth more on the continent as bullion than it was in the UK as tender, so arbitrageurs shipped coins abroad, melted them down, and sold them for gold. Everyone from the Jews to the French ...

Space-watchers, hold on to your telescopes. The interstellar visitor we’ve all been buzzing about just threw a curveball.

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

Io, moon of Jespiter Jupiter, is famously volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, over an area the size of Asia. Some of the volcanic mountains are taller than Mount Everest.

Astrophotographer Terry Hancock has captured a dramatic view of the star-forming region IC 1396 — also known as the ...