Save 18% on the Celestron 70mm Travel Scope, an ideal bit of kit for stargazers, this is a 'grab and go' model that requires minimum setup. The lightweight telescope comes with a handy backpack ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets. The ...

Our expert reviewers have extensively tested most of the telescopes in this guide, so you can be sure you are getting a reliable piece of kit. We've included telescopes suitable for a range of ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

If you’ve outgrown your basic scope but aren’t quite ready to invest in an advanced astronomy kit, the Meade telescope featured here could be exactly what you’re looking for. We’ll start ...

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 ...

NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

Richard Massey receives funding from the UK Space Agency to support Euclid, and leads UK involvement in the SuperBIT balloon-born telescope. In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about ...

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 ...

Astronomers combined images from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to create the highest-resolution image of two galaxies, IC 2163 on left and NGC 2207, on the verge of ...

The rapidly developing technology of telescopes—both on Earth and in space—has been a key part of this process, and those that are due to start operating over the next two decades should push ...