As with amateur scopes, dew is a potentially harmful problem at professional observatories because the water that accumulates on optical surfaces can interfere with the telescope’s performance, and it ...

Light pollution from human activity can threaten radio astronomy – and people's view of the night sky. Estellez/iStock via Getty Images Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help ...

Have you ever just looked up at the starts and wondered just how far out it goes? If you have, you are not alone. There are many scientists and researchers who are trying to unlock the secrets that ...

Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the ...

Researchers from Italy, Chile and Galicia have studied and compared the light pollution levels at major astronomical observatories across the world. The study shows that light is polluting the sky ...

In 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they had made the first confirmed detection of gravitational waves (GWs). This discovery confirmed ...

Operations at both the North and South Gemini telescopes have been temporarily suspended following a cybersecurity incident, the nature of which is unclear. Reading time 2 minutes The International ...

On Wednesday, Schmidt Sciences - an organization funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt - announced an ambitious initiative to build a space telescope larger than Hubble ...

As ever-larger telescopes are launched into space or built at high-altitude sites, these observatories still have wonders to share with visitors and astronomers alike. An archival photograph of the ...

Isamu Noguchi’s photo of Mishra Yantra instrument at the Jantar Mantar observatory in Delhi, India (1949) (all images courtesy Noguchi Museum) Noguchi often traveled with the intent of absorbing the ...

Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the ...