Sensitive equipment and historical artifacts — including the Mills spectrograph used in the observatory’s early days to ...

Early on Thursday, Dec. 25, severe winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour tore loose half of the shutter on the 140-year old ...

Winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour caused significant damage to the Lick Observatory on Christmas Day, according to the ...

UC Santa Cruz's Lick Observatory suffered significant damage from high winds, affecting its main building and leaving the 36-inch telescope vulnerable to rain.

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich, London, ...

Thomas Jefferson wanted to bring the stars indoors. Jefferson, in designing the University of Virginia’s iconic Rotunda, planned to paint constellations on the ceiling of the Dome Room. He never ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Stellaphane Observatory National Historic Landmark of Springfield received an early present this holiday season: a donated observatory dome that was almost sold as scrap metal. The ...

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 ...

Mount Wilson Observatory—the place where humankind discovered its place in the universe—is pleased to announce the fifth date in its Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome six-month series, to take ...