From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days.

From 1985 to 2014, Jean Mueller supported astronomers from around the world who came to Palomar to use its iconic instruments ...

Hong Kong's Labour Department has reminded employers to make prior work arrangements and take appropriate precautionary measures to ensure employee safety.

NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a short-notice mission ...

The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous ...

NASA has awarded Katalyst $30 million to move forward with implementation under a Phase III award as an existing participant in NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, managed by the ...

SpaceX is set to launch early Wednesday to send up three satellites on a million-mile trip to tackle the mysteries of space weather including how to protect from the sun’s disruptive and dangerous ...

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...

In October, a newly discovered comet will streak so close to Earth that people may be able to make out its heavenly fireworks ...

Travelers hoping to witness the dancing lights of the Northern Lights can see them from these 10 lesser-known domestic destinations.

Most of us do not live in a dark-sky area, or even close to one. Often an imaging session involves loading a ton of equipment ...