From the outside, a planetarium and an observatory might look a somewhat similar, but it's what's inside that counts.

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

Today, the observatory is home to a variety of telescopes, as well as artifacts like Lowell's first telescope, classic scientific books and instruments built by the observatory's scientists for ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in ...