Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

A new study led by researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a neural ...

Professional observatories such as the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy in Chile use different techniques than amateurs with smaller scopes do to protect their equipment.

Where the Great Observatories are unique is in that all four were designed to be complementary, covering the entire spectrum from visible light and near-IR (Hubble), to IR (Spitzer), X-ray ...

Today, anyone can have a telescope, but die-hard space fans have observatories at home. In Asheville, N.C., a 1920s home was renovated to include an addition with a domed observatory.

A new summer exhibition in the First Floor Gallery of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library explores the ...

On August 14th, Virgo detected its first gravitational wave signal — along with the LIGO observatories — from a pair of black holes violently merging over a billion light-years away.

That is why newer and larger observatories are being built around the world. The telescopes at some of the biggest observatories offer a high resolution view of the universe.