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What telescope could cause our astrophotography expert to break their hard-and-fast rule about not traveling with a tele...

Ready to turn your skywatching upside-down? Then snap up this ZWO Seestar S30 Pro, which offers views so stunning it made our expert bin their no telescope rule.

Roman telescope's massive infrared mirror is ready to fly

NASA has completed its final inspection of the primary mirror on the Roman Space Telescope, which measures 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) in diameter and contains a layer of silver hundreds...

We praised this telescope's 'legendary performance,' and the whole range is even cheaper for Prime Day

Looking for a telescope that takes the work out of stargazing? Our experts loved these Celestron NexStar SE go-to telescopes and prices have dropped on the whole range.

Grab our best telescope for beginners with $100 off the Celestron NexStar 4SE

Celestron's iconic orange NexStar series is on sale on Amazon and includes the smallest of the set, the NexStar 4SE, a perfect first telescope for new stargazers. It has a 4-inch a...

Our choice for the best deep-space viewing telescope — now with $200 off, this telescope deal is worth grabbing fast

Expert tester rated the Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope with an impressive review and it's now at its best price of the year in this early Amazon Prime Day deal.

The Big Impact of Small Telescopes

The Big Impact of Small Telescopes Elizabeth Redden Fri, 06/26/2026 - 03:00 AM In an era of big data and big telescopes, college observatories remain ess...

20,000 Eyes on the Universe

We live in a golden age of astronomical imaging. Telescopes are capturing billions of galaxy images, painting the universe in breathtaking detail. But there's a problem, and it's a...

Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory Mark II smart telescope review

The Celestron Origin Mark II smart telescope will have you capturing crisp images of deep-sky objects within minutes of taking it out of the box.

After 10 years of upgrades, this legendary telescope has returned to chase black holes, asteroids and cosmic chemistry

The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964. Over the following four decades, it supported...

Small optical component could change how telescopes view the sun

A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions study and monitor the sun while simplifying onboard hardwa...

America 250: How has telescope technology evolved since the dawn of the U.S.?

Optical telescopes have come a long way in the past two-and-a-half centuries — from the homemade telescope of William Herschel to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

Extremely Large Telescope reaches a major milestone | Space photo of the day for July 13, 2026

The Extremely Large Telescope is looking quite large in this exciting moment.

Nikon's telescopes to be installed on Axelspace's next-generation Earth observation satellites “GRUS-3”

Nikon Corporation (Nikon) is pleased to announce that its telescopes will be installed on seven GRUS-3, the next generation Earth observation microsatellites developed by Axelspace...

Inside NASA's $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that could see 100 times more than Hubble

The work of researchers from across Canada is at the heart of a massive new telescope that could…

Canadian-developed technology helps new telescope probe mysteries of the cosmos | CBC NewsThe work of researchers from across Canada is at the heart of a massive new telescope that...

Roman Telescope's massive infrared mirror is ready to fly

It’s June 2027, and you’re fresh off defending your PhD studying the direct imaging of exoplanets while starting your postdoctoral journey at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The tr...

This beginner-friendly travel telescope is the reason I turned into a skywatcher

Now, for around $80, you can get the same telescope in the Amazon Prime Day sales and join me in looking up at the stars.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Is Ready to Start Its Cosmic Survey

The new space telescope will work in tandem with the Hubble Space Telescope to uncover more secrets of the universe.

AtLAST, a telescope that could reveal the missing half of the universe

A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil fuels. If you have ever seen the Milky Way in the night sky, you probably no...

Roman telescope will spot distant black holes that shred stars

How do black holes at the centers of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and study supermassive black holes at great distances that...