Ernie Wright, a science visualizer at NASA, explains why the moon turns red during a lunar eclipse. Wright also explains how ...

From Mercury to Neptune, observers in the United States will get to see this historic planet parade known as a large ...

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Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

Sensitive equipment and historical artifacts — including the Mills spectrograph used in the observatory’s early days to ...

The National Weather Service expects a storm to hit Mount Hamilton on Friday night and bring 2 to 2 1/2 inches of rain to the ...

Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Beating the odds is, by its nature, very difficult. For Heather Peggs and George Igoe, the odds happened to be in ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

A few weeks ago, technicians inside a cavernous clean room in Maryland made the final connection to complete assembly of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Parts of this new observatory, named ...