There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

In the last two to three years the world of amateur telescopes has been turned on its head. The advances in technology have ...

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During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Australia's largest private telescope, a $1.3 million PlaneWave CDK700, opens at Swan Reach Observatory in South ...

The Virilis are a family of four based in Piacenza, Italy, about an hour south of Milan, and Giulia Virili’s tween son is an ...

The 1891 structure has been relocated to the middle of the college's athletic fields and outfitted with a new dome and mounted telescope.

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

It's a beautiful clear night. The stars are out and the Moon looks breathtaking against the sky, so you reach for your phone to take a snap. The ...

It's been a long time since we saw a new premium 'scope from Leica – 18 years in fact, when, in 2007, the renowned German ...

Well, Comet Lemmon finally passed its closest approach to the Sun and is now heading back into the outskirts of the solar ...