I enjoyed being the focus of my friends’envy when I had the opportunity to field test StarStructure Telescopes’ 12.5-inch f/4.8 Dobsonian-mounted, truss-tube reflecting telescope.

The invention of the reflector telescope stretches back to Isaac Newton in the 17th Century. Typically, the reflecting telescope allows for larger apertures. This means a greater amount of light ...

Located in a natural valley of Southwest China's Guizhou province, the 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope, known as the FAST Project, had its first reflecting unit installed in early August.

It is nearly four times larger than the largest operational reflecting telescopes in the world. The Europeans are in a contest, of sorts, with other very large telescope construction projects.

Armentrout said the Green Bank team is helping the Norway team carefully disassemble the decommissioned telescope. They’ll ship these parts back to West Virginia to keep on hand to repair their ...

UMass Amherst astronomers were among a team of scientists that processed a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope that reveals never-before-seen details of a region in space dubbed Pandora ...