On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

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 ...

Image: Gemini North GMOS image of the “Fireworks Galaxy” NGC 6946 which straddles the boundries between the constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Click here for a high resolution photograph. Mauna Kea ...

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that revolutionize astronomy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Online observatory will let users listen in on Australian wildlife By Ben Coxworth November 27, 2019 One of the 400 audio sensors that will make up the Australian Acoustic Observatory Queensland ...

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Bad weather delayed the opening of a new observatory at Muddy Run from last weekend until Oct. 22. If you don’t want to wait to see the wonders of the night sky, you can observe them earlier at the ...

Griffith Observatory will hold an online broadcast of the partial (near total) lunar eclipse from 10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18 to 4:05 a.m. Nov. 19. Visit https://www ...

The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back. Beside me were two-ton custom jigs and dozens ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. SAN DIEGO—What a difference a year makes. The intense handwringing over the future of science journalism in the wake of job ...