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.

Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant ...

Our machines can gaze at the visible and invisible parts of the cosmos and translate ... producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly ...

Once described as the most important telescope in history after the original built by Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope has ... is expected to come to an end over the next decade, as its parts fail, ...