The long-exposure image shows just how fast the Simonyi Survey Telescope moves. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its decade-long survey to scan the entire night sky every three days. To do this ...

India's ambitious Neutrino Observatory project in Tamil Nadu lies in limbo after two decades of preparation, facing political and environmental opposition. Scientists lament missed opportunities for ...

A former director of Armagh Observatory and Planetarium will be remembered for shaping “new generations of astronomers” following his death. Dr Mart de Groot headed Ireland’s leading astronomical ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Ariz. (KGUN) — Just two days after welcoming visitors back for the first time since renovations, the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory Science Center has been forced to close its ...

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PASADENA, CA — When Mansi Manoj Kasliwal was 15, she left her hometown of Indore, for boarding school in the United States. Encouraged by a teacher to pursue science, she soon found herself working on ...

Greenwich's Royal Observatory is improving access to its buildings and creating new educational and events spaces in a £77m project. A lift tower will be built to the Great Equatorial Telescope, which ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system. Hydroxyl compounds ...

Astronomy’s newest telescope is a cosmic paparazzi, taking about 1,000 pictures of the southern sky every night from a mountaintop in Chile. With giant mirrors concentrating starlight into a ...

Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO)—Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history—is pleased to present the final “Sunday Afternoon Concerts ...

Two newly discovered comets are streaking across the sky in a spectacular display as they make their closest approaches to Earth this month. Comets are made of ice, frozen gases and rock, and as they ...