The Helix Nebula has long been a favorite target for backyard telescopes, a pale blue eye staring out from the constellation Aquarius. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has turned that familiar ...

Lately we've been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA's flagship telescope ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is carefully watching an asteroid called 2025 XM, a space rock about 84 feet (26 ...

Exactly 101 years ago, on January 24 th 1925, the Sun turned black. That total solar eclipse was the last time it happened over our homes. The Hudson Valley won’t see another until May 1, 2079.

At the onset of 2026, Cuba is grappling with the devastating loss of two women to gender-based violence, allegedly killed by ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

City lights brighten the sky west of David Levy's backyard observatory in the Vail area, but the skies are darker and starrier to the east. Those contrasting views illustrate what could be at stake ...

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 ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory. Now, with back-to-back ...

(KRON) — Winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour caused significant damage to the Lick Observatory on Christmas Day, according to the University of California at Santa Cruz. Half the shutter on the 140 ...