A newly formed support group for the Green Bank Observatory, now under threat from planned “decommissioning and disposition” in the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget, will host a free ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

Pulsating stars. Supernova explosions. Streaking asteroids. Far-off galaxies. Humankind recently saw the first stunning images of outer space taken by the world’s largest digital camera – and Florida ...

WITH BOTH STRENGTH AND FAIRNESS. SENATOR JEANNE SHAHEEN IS HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY. TODAY, SHE GOT UP TO START A NEW SNOW CAP PURCHASE TO HELP ...

The Yerkes Future Foundation (YFF) has officially acquired the Yerkes Observatory's collection of 180,000 astronomical glass plates from the University of Chicago. These glass plates, spanning from ...

The observatory is hidden among 400 Valencia orange trees in the 5-acre Orange Grove on the California State University Northridge campus. The San Fernando Observatory (SBO) is known for its unusual ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed astronomer Father Richard Anthony D’Souza, SJ, as the new director of the Vatican Observatory. D’Souza, who has worked at the Vatican’s astronomical research and ...

Christopher Traill receives funding from the Australian government through a Research Training Scholarship, the CSIRO Quantitative Marine Science Scholarship, and the Australian Antarctic Program ...

Named in honor of female astronomer Vera Rubin, whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation provided key evidence for dark matter, the Vera Rubin Observatory uses the world's largest digital camera to ...

When the late Pope Francis was elected, a dozen years ago, and famously declined the pomp and perquisites typically associated with the office, among his renunciations was the use of the papal summer ...

With unnerving precision and skill, the three-ton steel dome was lowered into place and anchored to the masonry. With its aluminized coating to prevent corrosion, this new shelter now sits atop ...