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 ...

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 ...