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 ...

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, celebrated the grand opening of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC), a 40,000-square-foot facility featuring interactive exhibits, a ...

The Martz-Kohl Observatory will host astronomer Erica mEssmer today at 7:30 p.m. Messmer’s discussion, titled “When Stars Attack! Nearby Supernovae and Earth,” will focus on what happens when a ...

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

While JWST reveals the ancient universe billions of years old, SkyMapper focuses on today’s changing cosmos — tracking near-Earth asteroids, meteors, comets, satellites, and transient events that ...

In an elementary school science class, Rav Kaur first learned about stars, planets, and other wonders in the night skies. That introduction to the solar system launched her passion for space ...

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 ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo Cluster, a massive collection of galaxies in the Virgo constellation, was ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Arizona is a hub for space exploration and stargazing, offering a variety of places for those curious about the cosmos. From the Dorrance Planetarium at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, where ...

On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall in Auburn Hills — stands a hidden landmark to the history of science, astronomy and ...

That's a lot of standard candles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory ...