Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

is there life elsewhere?—space scientists agree that we need much bigger and much better eyes on the sky. Below, see some of the giant optical and radio telescopes now under development.— ...

T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB’s "nova outburst" has the potential to be a "once-in-a-lifetime" occasion, as the event only ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is reappearing in the spring night sky, so be ready in case it goes nova. T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), popularly known as the "Blaze Star," is surely on the verge of a ...

Van Belle estimates that a future space telescope might ... Ahead of the Nova explosion, it’s a good idea to start looking at the Big Dipper in the night sky because Van Belle said it's a ...

Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow astronomers to peer farther into the universe and see the cosmos more clearly. Scientists began dreaming of such a telescope in the 1940s ...