Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

As we prepared the best telescopes for beginners, we considered all these types of people. The following telescopes were chosen for being good telescopes for the amateur and for their consistent ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Digital telescopes use a CCD or CMOS array, a grid of detector pixels that fire when they detect radiation of a given wavelength. CCDs are made of p-type MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor ...

In the 20th century, telescopes advanced greatly in size, with apertures of optical scopes expanding from just five feet to over 30, and radio dishes growing from 30 feet across to 1,000.

Here's how the large-scale blueprints for FARSIDE and FarView compare: Karan Jani, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University, champions another type of astronomy on the moon: the Laser ...