An AI-powered smart telescope with 24x optical magnification, this pocket-sized device is on Kickstarter now.

If you choose a telescope thinking that "150x magnification means it will look great," you are likely to focus only on the ...

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, ...

Today I’ll be telling you about 10 of my favorite autumn deep-sky objects, with suggestions for viewing them. I hope you’ll ...

With the 2012 holiday season coming into its "home stretch," many people may be seriously considering the purchase of a telescope. You've seen telescope ads in newspapers, junk mail catalogues and on ...

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 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. When you think of a telescope, you think of an enormous long ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on Aug. 30, 2026, beginning a journey that will take it about a million ...