Despite growing interest, astronomy remains an expensive hobby in Bangladesh, with telescopes being costly and light pollution in cities limiting observation ...

Until then, the largest optical telescope in the Western Hemisphere had been the 200-inch ... the 9.8 m (386 in) Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas that also used a segmented ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies around 260 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces.

Here, we've rounded up some of our favorite refractors: the Orion Observer II 70 Refractor, the Meade Instruments ... of a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that can be used by astrophotographers.

Make the most of January's new moon and survey the darkened skies with the best telescopes. Our guide will help you choose the right scope, no matter your budget or experience. Are you new to ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece ...

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 ...

Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space Telescope might not have broken our understanding of the universe, after all. Previously, astronomers used Webb to spot ...

They used the 2.1-meter telescope there to determine that twin quasars in the constellation Ursa Major were actually a single quasar whose image had been split by gravitational lensing.