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 ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope continues to make headlines, a much larger observatory is quietly being built on Earth.

The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first “binocular” light. U.S., ...

The Vaonis Hyperia telescope is priced to appeal to institutions such as observatories. It combines large optics with 17 ...

Dedication ceremony in Tucson, Ariz. will unveil the world’s most powerful ground-based telescope to an international audience The LBT Corporation announced today that the dedication ceremonies for ...

The past quarter of a century in astronomy has been dominated by large telescopes — but they are about to be usurped by some even larger ones. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

This story was produced by Science Friday and América Futura as part of our “Astronomy: Made in Latin America” newsletter and series. It is available in Spanish here. In the remote Atacama Desert of ...

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its ...

Here is a list with three objects per season which appear really large in the nighttime sky. Please note they aren’t all the brightest, but parts of the objects will be visible through binoculars. And ...

This Amazon Prime Day binocular deal will give you an incredible view of the night sky for less as the best stargazing binoculars are currently 26% off the RRP. When you purchase through links on our ...

What do binocular numbers mean? may seem like a simple question. But the truth is that it can be as simple or as complicated as you want. If you’re just talking about the numbers in “10×42” or “8×32,” ...