A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...

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

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble.

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes ...

After Santa delivered big trouble to Lick Observatory — the iconic astronomy complex atop Mount Hamilton east of San Jose where ferocious winds early Christmas morning blasted open the steel dome ...

There are plenty of parades we can easily join in this world — the zany Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena welcomes anyone for a $10 fee — but there are a few noble processions that we must be satisfied from ...

The historic building atop Mt. Hamilton is red-tagged and closed to visitors. But Astronomer Elinor Gates gave us a ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Cincinnati Observatory is offering a sweet way to soak up the sun with its annual Sun-Day Sundae Sunday celebration. Set for Sunday, July 20, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the ...