Night falls on the telescope dome at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. Its 40-inch telescope is visible inside. This is the largest refracting telescope in the world. * Photo: Roger ...

We use items every day of our lives without knowing that some of them have origins that took root centuries ago. Whether it's the clock on our living room wall or the engine under the hood of our car, ...

Several men laid claim to inventing the telescope, but the credit usually goes to Hans Lippershey, a Dutch lensmaker, in 1608. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

We're celebrating the 400th anniversary of the telescope on Oct 2 here at Wired.com, but much of the world is waiting until 2009, the official International Year of Astronomy. It turns out that ...

BEING able to reach for the stars has been made a lot easier thanks to the telescope – which allows us to see them all up close. The telescope has seen a lot of developments since it was first ...

Have you peered skywards using a telescope? An optical instrument used for viewing objects, telescopes bring distant stars, worlds and even galaxies nearby by magnifying them, achieving it through an ...

Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey is credited with the invention of binoculars in 1608, a year before Galileo Galilei introduced the first telescope and viewed the moons of Jupiter, Saturn's rings ...