— -- As humans, we're limited by what we can see with the naked eye. While we're biologically suited to looking at things up close, our eyes can't zoom in to take a look at far-away objects. But ...

Which refractor telescope is best? Space has intrigued humankind ever since we looked skyward for the first time. While it is difficult to imagine what our ancestors thought of the twinkling lights, ...

A student at New Mexico State University is showing how you can use pretty much anything to create something. Saul Hernandez ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sun would be a far more powerful telescope than any humanity could create in the near future. But to use it, we need to get to 650 AU.

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...