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

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia uses several methods to remove snow during the winter ...

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.

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 ...

The satellites in Amazon's new internet-beaming megaconstellation in low Earth orbit are bright enough to disrupt ...

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

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

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 ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

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