Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

Mobile apps and AI processing are making things a lot easier for would-be stargazers, who no longer have to fiddle with focusing using cold fingers or even track and identify celestial objects – smart ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astrophysics is, as many astrophysicists will tell you, the story of everything. The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Ariz. (KGUN) — Amado’s Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is preparing to reopen its Science Center this Friday, October 4th, following a pandemic-related closure. The revamped ...

That's a lot of standard candles. June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside ...

The enormous Maverick Carter house has an observatory and a refractor telescope. It's open to the public for tours.