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 ...

"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 ...

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 Westport Astronomical Society has a dome through which the mysteries and wonders of the universe may be glimpsed on a clear night. But one dome isn’t enough. The organization was recently gifted a ...

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