Astronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that quest is still ...

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

The Great Green Wall in the Sahel, a mosaic of forests, farmlands and grasslands dotting the arid fringes of Sahara, was ...

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

However, the cost of securing these private residences grew substantially over the years. In 1974, Congress agreed to refurbish the Naval Observatory house as the vice president's residence.

The Mount Washington Observatory recorded a gust of 161 mph, the highest daily peak gust since February 2019, when winds reached 171 mph. The peak gust is also tied for the 19th highest daily gust ...

The observatory was a gift to the city from Griffith J. Griffith, with the mission of making astronomy accessible to all. It has been featured in numerous films, including La La Land and Rebel ...

An annual event over recent years, the I Heart Pluto Festival in Flagstaff, Arizona, celebrates the history, heritage, and cutting-edge astronomy at Lowell Observatory. On Feb. 18, 1930 ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) should see its first light in July 2025. One of its scientific objectives is to find more small objects in the solar system, including asteroids, by scanning the ...

Indias Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) telescope located at Hanle in Ladakh. Indian scientists recently detected what could be one of the farthest known astronomical objects emitting ...

A global web of space agencies, private observatories, and both Earth- and space-based telescopes are keeping a constant watch on the skies, tracking thousands of asteroids that pose even a ...

Technicians will join Roman's solar panels to the outer barrel assembly and sunshade this spring, and then integrate them with the rest of the observatory by the end of the year. The mission has ...