In times like these, we all need to look beyond ourselves. This project might help: OnStep is an open-source telescope controller, a device that controls a telescope to point at something ...

It aligns with the Earth’s axis, allowing the telescope to follow the apparent motion of stars and planets across the night sky. Equatorial tables are specific to a location on the Earth ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

The Dobsonian telescope design is hugely popular with amateur astronomers. The design was developed in the 1960s by John Dobson, an amateur astronomer who wanted to create an inexpensive and easy ...

If you're a beginner, you might want to opt for an automated GoTo telescope to remove the challenge of finding and pinning down your targets, but we've also included manual telescopes and ...

Here's how they work—and how it's not always just about optics. A telescope is a device used to observe objects at great distances, by focusing and capturing the electromagnetic radiation they ...

NASA announced that two space probes proposed by University of Maryland astronomers have advanced to the next round of ...

LTT 1445 Ac is roughly the size of Earth and about 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The planet orbits the ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space ...