The preview at the new Stamford Museum & Nature Center included a 5-minute show in the planetarium. This image of ...

Edwin Hubble redefined the universe and Brazil declared a republic, amid other landmark events shaping history and science ...

Join the celebration of the Southern African Large Telescope's 20-year journey, where groundbreaking discoveries and international collaboration have transformed our understanding of the cosmos.

It’s the grand narrative of how optics transformed human vision and understanding of the universe, showing how a simple desire to read better by candlelight eventually led to humanity peering into the ...

The 20th anniversary celebration will not only highlight SALT’s scientific achievements but also its impact on human capital development.

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfvén waves in the sun's corona—elusive magnetic waves that scientists have ...

The government shutdown has suspended work for hundreds of thousands of government employees, but it didn’t halt the launch of a new telescope designed and built by the scientists at the University of ...

On the night of Oct. 27, 1965, a new 16-inch telescope situated in a new observatory on the campus of Colorado State University drew its very first light from its first observed object, the planet ...