Telescope sales climbed sharply in the months after the 1969 moon landing, turning a specialty item into a common household purchase. Many vintage department-store refractors carried genuine ...

As with most hobbies, there’s a point in almost every astrophotographer’s journey when the backyard stops being enough. If you get serious about astrophotography, you’ll soon enough be disappointed by ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has shared a breathtaking new view of the iconic Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) rearing its head 1,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. Meyer's image ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a breathtaking view of Markarian's Chain — a string of majestic galaxies glowing in ...

Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there is no narration or ...

A gas giant the size of Jupiter, yet even heavier and denser, has captured the attention of astronomers across the world. This planet, now confirmed and named TOI-4465 b, lies roughly 400 light-years ...