Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.

Despite their weak... Data from the now-collapsed Arecibo Observatory continues to drive major discoveries in space science. Sofia Sheikh and her team from the SETI Institute utilised archived ...

LISA, a $1.6 billion gravitational wave observatory set to launch next decade, will revolutionize the way we see gravitational waves—the infinitesimal perturbations of spacetime first predicted ...

An image of the solar system orbiting the Sun is seen at Solaris, Israel's new solar observatory, in Isfiya. (photo credit: Idan Media/GPO) Israel has just launched its first-ever solar ...

As the director of the Vatican Observatory, known informally as “the pope’s astronomer,” he has just published his 13th book — “A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars: Exploring Wonder ...

Pictured is NASA’s SPHEREx spacecraft, a space observatory. It was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, after completing environmental testing. What are those cones? The spacecraft’s ...

A second dome has been opened at a Cornish observatory after undergoing restoration. The first dome at the Observatory for Cornwall in Chacewater was the realisation of a 20-year ambition, which was ...

At the Lowell Observatory, visitors can conjure their inner astronomer by peering through world-class telescopes and sitting in on lectures on topics like black holes and the history of Pluto.

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition. During the month of June, 25 students who were selected from among 120 ...

It's an Art Moderne astronomical observatory from the 1930s — a little rusty but almost completely intact. A valuable collection of vintage scientific equipment, including telescopes ...