How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The best telescopes for various purposes and budgets — from beginner to smart telescopes and everything in between. Black Friday is later this month, so there's plenty of scope for a great deal.

The first patent for a telescope was filed in 1608 in ... that could reduce exposure times in cameras. Diagram of Petzval’s 1841 portrait lens – crown glass shaded pink, flint glass shaded ...

He achieved this despite telescopes that were described at the time as fuzzy or blurrier than they otherwise should have been. Huygens built two-lens telescopes, and would keep a table of which ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

NASA telescopes have captured two ghastly galaxies that look like a creepy pair of staring “blood-soaked” eyes floating in space. The spiral galaxies, which are located 114 million light-years ...

Complete with two eyepieces (20mm and 10mm), 2x Barlow lens, star diagonal, backpack, finder scope, moon filter, tripod and smartphone adapter, this grab-and-go telescope offers a fully equipped ...

The December 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico came at the end of a 39-month sequence that began with Hurricane Maria in 2017, according to a new report from the National ...

Discover the best telescopes for an unrivaled view of the cosmos — just in time for Black Friday savings. A telescope opens up a world of discovery, bringing the beauty and mysteries of the ...

A mosaic of the cosmos made with Euclid Space Telescope data ... like in gravitational lenses. The Euclid team published the $1.4 billion spacecraft’s first images in November 2023, showcasing ...

A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed how much the giant storm changed shape as it traveled within the planet’s atmosphere. By Robin George Andrews The Great ...

New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the 190-year-old storm wiggles like gelatin and shape-shifts like a squeezed stress ball.