One would think that a US$99,000 telescope requires specialist training and a thick instruction manual. But the new Hyperia ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 23Pluto reaches conjunction with the Sun at 5 A.M. EST.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 9Cygnus may be sinking toward the horizon a few hours ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. The discoveries are the first results from OASIS (Observing Accelerators ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A dramatic rise in the number of internet satellites ...

Even telescopes far above Earth can’t avoid the contamination caused by commercial satellites. The findings are “truly frightening”, says Patrick Seitzer, an astronomer at the University of Michigan ...

One of the reasons astronomers like to put telescopes in space is that the “seeing” is better. With no turbulent atmosphere in the way the stars shine steadily, rather than twinkling as they do when ...

One in three images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope could be ruined if space companies’ plans to launch hundreds of thousands of satellites go ahead. More than three-quarters of the nearly 14,000 ...

Whether you want a basic scope or a more advanced system, Amazon has tons of Celestron models for the lowest prices of the year during Cyber Monday. By Stan Horaczek Published Nov 30, 2025 9:42 PM EST ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. Snapped last month by the ...

David Schechter serves as CBS News National Environmental Correspondent, delivering in-depth reporting on the human impacts of our changing environment and climate. Aparna Zalani is an award-winning ...

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...