When the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie first tried to canoe across North America in 1789, he unwittingly followed a river that led him north to the Arctic instead of west to the Pacific. When ...

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

Dwarf Lab releases the Dwarf Mini, a pocket-sized smartscope for deep-sky imaging, with 2MP RAW capture, IMX662 sensor and app-based controls for urban and remote observation.

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Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you’re not sure what all those terms — f/ratio, magnification, go-to — mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you’re buying, ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection. In a year and a half, Starfront Observatories in ...

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned ...