With so many ways to view the night sky, your choices for beginner telescopes can seem overwhelming ... She has written for CNN, National Geographic, and Elle, among other outlets.

They delved into the telescope's guts during long space walks and replaced parts that the original designers never thought they'd need to. Installation of a new power-control unit forced an ...

This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you start stargazing with a telescope, two experiences typically ensue. First, you are astonished by the view ...

Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles (41.8 million kilometers) from Earth, they are alive ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... what led astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker to a radio telescope deep in the outback of Western Australia.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been an astonishing piece of technology for the advancement of humankind's understanding of the universe, and the source of awe-inspiring images of ...