Looking to buy your first telescope but don't know where to start? We've picked out some of the best beginner telescopes on the market.

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 ...

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to facilitate chemical reactions. While single-celled life has existed almost as ...

Telescopes orbiting Earth can peer billions of light-years into space to observe incredible phenomena across the cosmos.

Less than a decade ago, there were about 2,000 operational satellites orbiting Earth. Today there are more than 15,000. Millions more are planned. Much has been made of the “space junk” problem these ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ability to get detailed views of distant objects in space is limited by the telescope size, so the sharpest details are usually obtained by linking telescopes together. A UCLA-led team of ...

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