Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know about the cosmos were discovered in the early 20th century at Mt. Wilson Observatory. It was ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

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 ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team reveal the first images from a brand new, ultra-powerful survey telescope on a livestream to astrophysicists at Duke University on Monday, June 23, 2025. The ...

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Whether she’s shuttling between meetings at Yale’s Wright Lab or conferring with colleagues around the world, Laura Newburgh’s thoughts of late rarely stray far from the Simons Observatory in northern ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits atop a Chilean mountain named Cerro Pachón, at 8,684 feet above sea level. (Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/A ...

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 ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

The camera resting in an impeccably clean, lint-free room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, resembles an extremely oversized version of the SLR lenses for Nikon or ...

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was recently named one of TIME's World's Greatest Places of 2025 and Newsweek's best science museums in the United States. The observatory is known for its historical ...