It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be captured by anyone with basic viewing equipment. Astronomer Yicheng Zhang ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on ...

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...

The Rubin Observatory is located on Cerro Pachón in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

Gov. Josh Green is pledging to help “promptly ” establish a procedure to permit construction of a controversial telescope atop Mauna Kea on a site previously developed for observatory use. Green ...

The Richard F Caris Mirror Lab in Tucson is actually attached to the UA football stadium, with some parts being below seats ...

Two weeks ago, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was at conjunction, on the opposite side of the Sun with respect to Earth. Last ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...

Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...