When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images We've rounded up the best telescopes for kids, focusing on scopes that are ...

Using a telescope typically means pointing it upward and hoping to land on something unique. You can find the moon, maybe a constellation, but after that, all those stars begin to look alike. So what ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An international team of astronomers says it has discovered supermassive, dust-shrouded black holes in seven galaxies, using a combination of telescopes on the Earth and in space.

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. In 1936, Albert Einstein published what he described as a "little ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...