ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. -- It's a project some say is out of this world... "This is just perfect," explains Roger Joyner. "I can walk outside, open it up." A homemade observatory, that seemed to fit ...

From a garden bursting with roses, violets, burgeoning cabbages and broken furniture in the remote West Siberian town of Barnaul rises a rickety wooden tower capped with an aluminum dome. World War II ...

When Rich Lohman decided to move to Woodacre from Alameda County 18 years ago, he was drawn to its rurality and dark night skies. It was the perfect place for the astronomer to spend his evenings ...