Having launched a successful Dark Skies Initiative in West Texas, the McDonald Observatory is expanding that initiative to New Mexico. In 2010, the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory ...

FORT DAVIS The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory will hold its first Dark Skies Festival April 29 and April 30, a press release detailed. The festival will include daytime and ...

Arizona is reaching for the stars: The International Dark Sky Discovery Center is under construction in Fountain Hills. Slated to open in fall 2025, the $28 million observatory and science center will ...

Taylor Observatory and Norton Planetarium offers cosmic educational events from the Earth and beyond for all ages.

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope, background left, looks over a fully-steerable 12-meter wide radio telescope that is used to study Geodesy at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory Tuesday, June 15, ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

A crew creates the concrete trail at Middle Fork River Forest Preserve near Penfield. A drawing shows the location of a new observatory and shelter, aggregate and concrete trails and additional ...

With no light pollution nearby, the night skies around the Vera Rubin Observatory glow in brilliant colors in this timelapse photo. Astronomers are also using these telescopes to study dark energy as ...

The Cincinnati Observatory posted a video of a fireball spotting in Cincinnati skies and reported the observatory’s first confirmed micrometeorite.

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Out in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the observatory has a clearer view thanks to no light pollution. With no light pollution nearby, the night skies around the Vera Rubin Observatory glow in brilliant ...