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 mountaintop by Tuesday morning, most of it falling by Sunday afternoon.

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench in the works. Reading time 5 minutes The European Southern Observatory is at ...

Using the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), an international team of astronomers have performed long-term photometric ...

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was recently named one of TIME's World's Greatest Places of 2025 and Newsweek's best science museums in the United States. The observatory is known for its historical ...

Middle Tennessee State University is in the process of soliciting bids from contractors to build a new observatory complex on campus. In addition to expanding the existing conventional observatory and ...