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

The Lick Observatory said the astronomical research facility is still drying out the building 20 days since experiencing a ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for future observatories.

NASA's SPHEREx Observatory has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, as seen here in this image released on Dec. 18, ...

Update June 23, 2025, 11:40 A.M. CDT: Additional images and videos showing our dynamic universe have now been released. Update June 22, 2025, 11:01 P.M. CDT: The very first images are now live! Here ...

Learn more about the Chankillo site, an ancient astronomical observatory that may offer new insights into how our ancestors ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images will be unveiled on Monday (June 23), and you can watch the action live.

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

Fans of wintertime astronomical events — or "astrognomies," you might call them, if you're feeling a little cutesy and flush with holiday spirit — can become understandably entranced with a few ...

Next year, we will begin creating our most detailed map yet of the visible sky, as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile begins operations. The information it collects will far surpass previous data ...