An out of the way Lithuanian optical telescope is providing astronomers worldwide with high-precision spectroscopic data on ...

The Simonyi Survey Telescope now has its mirrors and a camera in place. (Credit: Rubin Observatory) The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been ...

In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a ...

Dozens of people gathered at the 606 Bloomingdale Trail, 1805 N. Ridgeway Ave., Thursday night for an observation event ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been an astonishing piece of technology for the advancement of humankind's ...

The Old Naval Observatory is a historic site at 23rd and E Street in Northwest, Washington, D.C. It is where the United States Naval Observatory was located from 1844 to 1893, when it moved to its ...

“Our telescope tours and observing programs ... Though Glaspey has been retired since 2010, he is proud to see his old observatory still plugging right along. He said Kitt Peak has managed ...

The Science Center at Whipple Observatory in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson reopened to the public after a ...

April 2026 - 8 days Register for 2026 now at tours@newscientist.com and we will contact you later this year with confirmed ...

A long-standing mystery that puzzled astronomers for decades has been finally solved. The “first known brown dwarf,” Gliese ...

The Old University of Alabama Observatory, now known as Frederick R. Maxwell Hall, was an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Although no ...