The historic Yerkes Observatory, which houses the world’s largest refracting telescope, will live again thanks to a new agreement announced Tuesday. According to the deal, ownership of the famed ...

The Rochester Institute of Technology Observatory will hold an open house this month on the night of the total lunar eclipse. Members of the Rochester community are invited to observe the lunar ...

THE IDEA: Vanderbilt astrophysicist Karan Jani has led a series of studies that make the first case for a gravitational wave infrastructure on the surface of the moon. The experiment, dubbed ...

Scientists in Europe will unveil plans today for an ambitious new observatory to seek out gravitational waves — tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time — and potentially uncover secrets of the ...

The Lake Afton Public Observatory is set to close after its last program on Aug. 22. (July 14, 2015) Fernando Salazar File photo The Lake Afton Public Observatory may not be going dark after all.

UC Santa Cruz has been awarded $350,000 in combined grant and donor funds for a major upgrade to the Kast Spectrograph at Lick Observatory. Astronomers throughout the UC system use the Kast ...