There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

"Even though it's the first time we've seen a galaxy like this, we think that there could be many more out there." ...

Despite only two people running the show over the last four decades, the planetarium has welcomed thousands of visitors and ...

The structure of gas and dust resembles a glowing diamond ring / Computer simulations and observations made on board the ...

Columnist John Breunig fills a time capsule with moments from the opening of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center's new ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

The Leonid meteor shower is hitting its 2025 peak activity this November. What to know about the annual celestial display; ...

A criminal court jury on Friday convicted Joseph “Jupiter Joe” Martinez of second-degree murder in the killing of 13-year-old ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

The Friends of the Shiras Planetarium has launched an “adopt-a-star” program to meet its fundraising goal of $1,041,000. As ...

Observatory historian Kevin Schindler said since the passing of Percival Lowell, his endowment has been funding the majority ...