The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad featuring...  ...staring at the spot by the window where the rusty telescope used to be. "Someone stole it," Sally repeated fo...  ...ine a grown-up making off with the cumbersome old telescope . The detective's son examined the tree house for...  ...ice wouldn't pay much...

Randall Munroe of xkcd has a list of imaginative n...  ...e of xkcd has a list of imaginative names for new telescopes in his latest comic.The Very Large Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope are real. Even the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope...

[https://vimeo.com/72943796] (vimeo link)You know...  ....com/72943796] (vimeo link)You know that when our telescopes see very distant stars, we are seeing the star's...  ...is what science fiction is for. In the short film Telescope , travel at faster-than-light speed has been achie...

Light detected by the Hubble telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is believed to have come from the most distant ga...  ...rs.Scientists combined data from the Hubble space telescope with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope t...

Doris Ekblad-Olson, 82, of Colorado is the first person to receive CentraSight, an experimental optical implant: Ekblad-Olson suffers from "wet" macular degeneration, an end-stage form of the common, chronic disease, wh...

The 18th century telescope above, found in an excavation in Amsterdam,...  ...5 inches (80 to 140 millimeters), the telescopes were made using cattle metatarsal bone. "Thi...  ..."It's a nice shape to make these telescopes from,...

(vimeo link) The Paranal Observatory is a Very...  ...eo link) The Paranal Observatory is a Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal mountain in the Atacama desert o...

(vimeo link) Get a good look at the workings of the Keck Observatory atop atop Mauna Kea volcano in Hawai'i. I can't say I understand what's going on, but it sure looks impressive! The topper is the infinitely appropr...

Astronomers have discovered a new source of meteor showers, very likely from a comet, that may be coming to an Earth near you. While explaining why we shouldn't panic at the news, Dr. Phil Plait gives us a great analogy...

(vimeo link) The footage is from a webcam mounted outside the CFHT astronomical observatory in Hawaii (another view of it from a different webcam can be found here; sadly, both webcams are on Mauna Kea, not Haleakala)....