I unbox and set up the Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ5 — a compact and versatile mount for beginner and advanced astronomers alike. See ...

Learn how to set up your Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount in Equatorial mode for precise tracking and portable deep-sky imaging.

A visit to Vancouver's historic H.R. MacMillan Space Centre transports guests from Earth into deep space in its domed, 360° ...

Amazon Prime Day in October is in its final day and this telescope deal on the Celestron Inspire 100AZ brings the price down ...

Transparent telescope brings 'stunning deep-sky details' closer to home While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French smart ...

It’s hard to argue that the best place to watch the sky in Chennai, as the evening breeze cools down the increasingly built-up city, is anywhere but the beach. And the experience becomes even more ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. There's ...

When you become a young observer of the skies, happy to be out in a dark field at night with a 6-inch or 8-inch scope, you never dream of the kind of night of observing I experienced on Thursday, June ...

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth. My wife, Cristina, walked up just as the first space photo ...

The latest addition to NASA’s fleet of space telescopes will launch this weekend and quickly set to work scanning the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths, collecting rich data on more ...

A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the solar system—not on Earth but on the far side of the moon.

An amateur Austrian space photographer has managed a difficult feat: capturing imagery of China’s secretive Shenlong spaceplane with hobbyist-level equipment. In doing so, he found something that wasn ...