The McDonald Observatory's Dark Skies Initiative, successful in West Texas, is now expanding to New Mexico to combat artificial sky brightness.

RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.

But because Hill was starting a new role, he was on probationary status when President Donald Trump 's administration began ...

City of Madison leaders gathered on the city’s South Side Wednesday to celebrate the final beam being placed onto a Badger ...

O ne of the greatest mysteries left for humans is the question; where is everybody else? Though there are around 200 billion trillion stars out there in the observable universe, we have found evidence ...

Arizona's dark skies are a haven for astronomers and photographers. Some communities are fighting to keep them that way.

THE POYDRAS CENTER: 500 W. Main St., New Roads. Exhibit by artists Kellie Martin Smith and Olivia McNeely Pass, through March. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday. Free and open to the ...

Griffith Observatory is one of the most visited public observatories in the world. Located on Mount Hollywood in Griffith ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Cheyenne’s Marcy Curran, the cofounder of the Cheyenne Astronomy Society and an editor of a major astronomy publication, has ...

Inspired by Celtic, Egyptian and Mayan designs, the immersive artwork sits in a crater with a granite plinth at its centre, where visitors are invited to lie and gaze up at the sky. It’s big enough ...