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 modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

The National Weather Service expects a storm to hit Mount Hamilton on Friday night and bring 2 to 2 1/2 inches of rain to the mountaintop by Tuesday morning, most of it falling by Sunday afternoon.

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th anniversary Founded in 1675 by King Charles II, the Royal Observatory ...

Every Wednesday night as the sky grows dark, the Kirkwood Observatory opens its doors to the public. Available from the end of spring break to the beginning of Thanksgiving break each year, the ...

Steward Observatory’s long running Public Lecture series aims to make the complex field of Astronomy accessible to everyone.

The Yerkes Future Foundation (YFF) has officially acquired the Yerkes Observatory's collection of 180,000 astronomical glass plates from the University of Chicago. These glass plates, spanning from ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...