In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign is about to start. The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light ...

On January 18, 2002, the National Science Foundation formally opened the Gemini South telescope in Chile. This became the ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

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

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

NASA announced the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept.

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

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

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes ...

There are plenty of parades we can easily join in this world — the zany Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena welcomes anyone for a $10 fee — but there are a few noble processions that we must be satisfied from ...