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 ...

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 ...

Homolovi State Park was ranked among top road trip destinations in Arizona, and for good reason. Here's why you should make ...

Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting on and off for nearly two months since it burst to life on Dec. 23. The eruption has been taking place at the volcano’s summit ...

Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been erupting on and off for nearly two months since it burst to life ...