NASA, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the SOFIA Science Center, and the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) have announced the selection of 51 investigations to study the universe using the Stratospheric ...

collaborators Elizabeth Waltman of the Naval Research Laboratory, and Frank Ghigo of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). "This long-term survey was critical to our understanding of the ...

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 ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions between Earth's tectonic activity and astronomical cycles jointly shaped ...

The quality of ground-based astronomical observations delicately depends on the clarity of the atmosphere above the location from which they are made. Sites for telescopes are therefore very carefully ...

Did Jared Mansfield really establish the nation’s first astronomical lookout in Northside forty years before the founding of our magnificent Observatory? That depends. At the corner of Knowlton and ...

On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall in Auburn Hills — stands a hidden landmark to the history of science, astronomy and ...

Observations of Pablo’s Galaxy show repeated black hole heating restricted gas inflow, limiting new star formation in the early universe, based on Webb and ALMA data.

Astronomical observations from ground-based telescopes are sensitive to local atmospheric conditions. Anthropogenic climate change will negatively affect some of these conditions at observation sites ...