Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

Home to the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, author talks, stargazing, the Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory serves as a hub ...

Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes ...

Lick Observatory is located on the summit of Mt. Hamilton in the Diablo Range east of San Jose. (Photo by Nick Gonzales/UC Santa Cruz) In an elementary school science class, Rav Kaur first learned ...

There are plenty of parades we can easily join in this world — the zany Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena welcomes anyone for a $10 fee — but there are a few noble processions that we must be satisfied from ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

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Mount Wilson Observatory, Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history, has announced its 2025 season of public events and telescope ...