If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

Most distant celestial objects, such as galaxies and nebulae, generally do not exhibit perceived color through telescopes due to their low surface brightness, which is insufficient to activate the ...

From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some of its finest magnetic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This is the clearest image yet of the faint afterglow from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result.

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

Many in the University of Virginia community have trekked to the top of Observatory Hill to visit the Leander McCormick Observatory, dedicated in 1885 and still operating 140 years later. But how many ...