Enjoy shimmering constellations without venturing into remote landscapes at an underrated dark sky park just outside of ...

About 75,000 people attend the observatory's "star parties" throughout the year and take in the region's famously dark skies. "It makes me feel kind of small — not insignificant, but small, just ...

Thanks to a $367,088 grant funded by the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation Program, Appalachian ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...