Refractor telescopes are great for beginners ... they're not always great for astrophotography because of their curved focal plane, but for stargazing purposes they're excellent.

Tony Tyson, Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy, has been involved in the project (formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) for decades ... so that you could then cover a large focal ...

The full telescope includes mirrors ... we expect that all the CCDs in the detector lie in a single plane that happens to be the focal plane of the optical system. However, this is not the case in ...

The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the deepest realms of the universe. The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the James Webb Space ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring ...

The singer was not on the plane, but his girlfriend Rain Andreani was one of the several people taken to hospital, and one person died. By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital A private plane ...

Stunning footage shows a plane getting dangerously close to New England houses before crashing into trees Tuesday. The plane crashed in a residential neighborhood near Hampton Airfield in North ...

All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed in the crash. There's no indication the U.S. Army Black Hawk crew could tell there was an impending collision before its devastating ...

IT ALL HAPPENED IN SECONDS. A PLANE CRASH CAUGHT ON CAMERA OUTSIDE OF CHRIS MARTIN’S HAMPTON HOME. HE ALMOST LANDED ON THE STREET, YOU KNOW, THANK GOD THERE WASN’T CARS. PILOT DAVE LENNON WAS ...

"President Trump is touring a new Boeing plane to checkout the new hardware/technology," said Steven Cheung, the White House communications director. "This highlights the project's failure to ...