SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

The Robert Ferguson Observatory in Kenwood will mark this weekend’s International Observe the Moon Night with a special “Moon Focus Night,” offering visitors a chance to learn about Earth’s closest ...

Professor Mansi Manoj Kasliwal has been appointed director of Palomar Observatory, making her the first woman and second PIO to lead the facility. An internationally recognized Caltech astronomer, she ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days. reading time 6 minutes The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

The observatory is hidden among 400 Valencia orange trees in the 5-acre Orange Grove on the California State University Northridge campus. The San Fernando Observatory (SBO) is known for its unusual ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed astronomer Father Richard Anthony D’Souza, SJ, as the new director of the Vatican Observatory. D’Souza, who has worked at the Vatican’s astronomical research and ...

SO AS WE’RE HIKING IN OVER 26 YEARS WORKING AT THE BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY AND SCIENCE CENTER IN MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR DON MCCASLIN HAS LEARNED A THING OR TWO. THIS TRUNK IS A BEACH ...

Now the LSST camera's first imagery has been released, starting with a composite of 678 captures over a 7-hour stretch that "clearly reveals otherwise faint or invisible details" of the Trifid Nebula ...

WASHINGTON — A celebration of the long-awaited first images from a major new observatory is overshadowed by the fears astronomers have about proposed severe budget cuts at the agency funding them. At ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is perched on a mountain in northern Chile in the foothills of the Andes – a location astronomers say is ideal for observing the skies. The observatory’s main objective ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of ...