Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Dark comets are believed to exhibit behaviour similar to traditional comets, such as the release of gas causing non-gravitational movement, but they lack visible dust trails. The Rubin Observatory, ...

Advocates for limits on indiscriminate outdoor lighting that obscures night skies worldwide are recognizing efforts by an oil ...

Edward Barnard discovered the large dark clouds of the ... And now, a courtyard outside the observatory’s front door is home to a glass Christmas tree that’s 36 feet tall, thanks to a 5-foot star ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time should spot many new "dark comets" after coming online in ...

Oscar nominated cinematographer Jarin Blaschke talks about his latest collaboration with director Robert Eggers.

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The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell us.

The first meteor shower of the year peaks on the night of January 2–3. Here’s everything you need to know to watch it and the ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

The Winter Circle, a large circular pattern made of some of the brightest stars in the Northern Hemisphere's winter sky, will ...