Telescopes are popular holiday gifts that can open up new worlds of exploration or they can be an expensive source of frustration. Selecting the right telescope for that special person on your list ...

Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution: gravitational lensing, predicted by Albert Einstein and observed many times by ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing. Using the Hubble Space Telescope to survey a sample of huge clusters of ...

Decouvir is a new smart telescope equipped with a number of useful features such as quick focus and the ability to connect to the companies companion smartphone application allowing for easy operation ...

When conditions are just right, space can magically turn into a sort of magnifying glass, making even incredibly distant galaxies suddenly visible from here in the Milky Way. Now, the inherent power ...