The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue ...

If you think that choosing the most powerful home telescope is just as simple as finding one with the highest magnification capability, then you’re wrong! There are many other key factors affecting a ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

This was his legacy. One of the last Tuskegee airman has died. This was his legacy. The forgotten history of New York’s first electric taxi fleet—in the 1800s The forgotten history of New York ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly The moonrise and moonset schedule this week The following is adapted from Alison Klesman’s The Sky This Week column. Times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise ...

Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ as the top pick for basic astrophotography in our best beginner's telescope guide.

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

There's also a total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, and binoculars are a fantastic lightweight alternative to the best telescopes.

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