Construction of the world's largest telescope has reached its highest point with assembly of the roof's dome and large sliding doors that will shield the observatory. The European Southern Observatory ...

"A great deal of remediation" will be needed at Kitt Peak National Observatory as a few astronomers return to the site to help it recover from wildfire damage, its managing authority says. Essential ...

The science museum's Kellogg Observatory hasn't opened to the stars since just before the start of the 21st century. But in the fall, planets like Saturn and Mars and the moons for Earth and Jupiter ...

The distant celestial wonders in the sky above New London will soon be more visible than ever. An anonymous Connecticut College alum has donated $100,000 to the Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students are used to high-flying events, and they witnessed a delicate one Tuesday as a crane carefully lifted steel dome on top of a new building.The 18,000-pound ...

One of the first images taken by the Discovery Channel Telescope was of the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51. The image was obtained April-May 2012. The Discovery Channel Telescope dome with the Moon overhead.