Make the most of ... the best telescopes. Our guide will help you choose the right scope, no matter your budget or experience. Are you new to stargazing or trading up a less powerful scope?

You don't have to break the bank to make the most of February's skywatching. We've got the best budget telescopes under $500, just in time to observe the moon and Venus's convergence. Telescopes ...

Originally known as the "Next Generation Space Telescope," the telescope was somewhat controversially named after James E. Webb, one of NASA's early administrators. Webb ran NASA from 1961 to 1968 ...

The area's thin, dry air makes it one of the most pristine star-gazing spots on Earth. The mirror of the telescope will span 85 feet across, but since it's physically impossible to build a mirror ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of ... "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don’t see, look like this on the inside," he said.

As with our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... jets of gas colliding together at near light speed. The Webb telescope, the most ...

In 1974, the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space was made from Puerto Rico. The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio ...

Catching those photons, or light particles, meant going into space, because Earth's atmosphere blocks most infrared. Lyman Spitzer, the American astrophysicist for whom the telescope is named ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope that humanity has ever created, enabling scientists to gaze further into the universe than ever before.