ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Families can explore the night sky through telescopes on May 3 in Muskegon, West Olive and Lowell, with activities ranging ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

A star was born in 1935, when Griffith Observatory became the first public observatory west of the Mississippi. Now, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, but the big reveal is expected later this year.

The sudden, bright flare from the event was picked up by the Zwicky Transient Facility, a sky-surveying optical camera ...

Or take a road trip and visit Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson for a glimpse through world-class telescopes, or head to Mount Lemmon SkyCenter for an unforgettable stargazing experience.

Every fall, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics Andrew Skemer takes the new cohort of first-year graduate students to Lick Observatory. Since it began operating in 1888, the observatory has been at ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of ...

The NSO described the sun as "a plasma laboratory right on our doorstep" and said that the VTF's image gives promise that ...