For budding astronomers and space experts, telescopes bridge the gap between them and space. To take your love of the planets ...

The epic story of how a notice in a Chad newspaper article in 1969 led to the launch of a multi-million-pound planetarium, ...

Finally, there are the slightly pricier catadioptric telescopes, which were created to tackle some of the problems found in the standard refractor and reflector design. Here, we've divided them ...

This type of mounting is a variation on the alt-azimuth design specially for Newtonian reflecting telescopes. These are available in simple manual push-pull design or fully computerized with ...

Reflecting this diversity was among the enjoyable challenges ... As well as Reid’s sewing machine, new works include a ceramic telescope by Alan Constable, which is perched to “view” out of the large ...

The Subaru’s 8.2-meter (27 feet) reflector is among the largest single-piece mirrors in the world. (Operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the telescope has no affiliation ...

Isaac Newton introduced the reflecting telescope in 1668, which used mirrors instead of lenses to overcome chromatic aberration—a flaw in refracting telescopes that distorted images. This innovation ...

The new Fiat Grande Panda, the first model of the new global family, truly represents the Italian brand for its Italian ...

Explore the Hibiscus satellite, a cutting-edge thermal imaging satellite designed for affordable, high-resolution hear ...

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the ...

The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...