Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

While the meteor shower is known for the display it puts on in the southern hemisphere, it's still capable of dazzling above ...

The best and easiest way to view the sun is to use your binoculars to project an image of the sun onto a piece white cardboard. It is fun to check daily to see the movement of the sun spots as they ...

Magnification tells you how large an object will appear in binoculars or a scope compared to the naked eye. For example, 8x magnification means the bird or object will appear eight times larger.

dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle. Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, has been visible through telescopes and binoculars over the past few weeks with its streaming tail, but ...