In 1914, English composer Gustav Holst began writing what would become The Planets, a seven-movement orchestral suite ...

Using images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, this globe unveils the ... This recent addition to Sky-Watcher USA's ...

Amateur astronomy is filled with solutions to problems like these that don’t cost an arm and a leg, though, like this 3D printed equatorial table built by [aeropic]. An equatorial table is a ...

Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering ...

In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid. Scientists a month later at the ...

The comet’s name comes from the two observatories that discovered it: the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (also known as the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory ...

Located on South Campus, the UMass Lowell Schueller Observatory enables students to use professional-grade telescopes and other instruments to observe stars, moons, and other celestial objects. The ...

Snow King Mountain in Jackson, Wyoming, now has the nation's only ski resort with an observatory and planetarium.

The cases of journalist killings recorded in this Observatory are also identified and verified based on confirmatory reports from at least two sources, including international and regional press ...

Astronomers discovered it in January 2023 as an asteroidlike dot in images of the sky taken at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China. It was very faint and in subsequent weeks wasn’t seen ...

Scientists are installing multiple temporary seismic monitoring stations to get a better understanding of the sharp increase ...

Griffith Observatory sits on the south face of Mount Hollywood and overlooks the Los Angeles basin. Its location gives visitors impressive views of the surrounding area, which many rave about.