With the 2012 holiday season coming into its "home stretch," many people may be seriously considering the purchase of a ...

That's the ethos behind Vaonis's Hestia. It's not a smart telescope, or even a normal telescope. Think of it as a lens to ...

Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you’re not sure what all those terms — f/ratio, magnification, go-to — mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you’re buying, ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

At this point, it's absolutely a contrarian position and not a rational one, but I think that could have been largely avoided if NSF and other government agencies had not spent the last 50 years ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Night sky watcher Daniel Lanpher sent in a photo of his son, Wes, learning to use the family's ...