Which is better for astrophotography — a camera lens or a refractor telescope? Here’s a direct comparison to help you decide ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was discovered on Sept. 10 by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly. It has brightened ...

This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system ...

A comet discovered earlier this year, now just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, is poised to be among the top ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

Dwarf 3 is a smart telescope with the ability to connect to your phone and track objects at night and during the day -- but ...

To photograph the comet, Alton Spencer left Danbury, finding darker and elevated spots in Bridgewater and Warren.

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

Campaigners have warned we are facing “industrialisation of the countryside” as the relentless onslaught of solar farm ...