A stronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that ...

Since the mid-1960s the observatory has expanded and grown. Dr. John Stull expanded and built many of the telescopes and buildings currently in use. Dr. David Toot, professor emeritus, was the second ...

Chinese scientists have unveiled details about their work on the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), a modern observatory designed to compete with the James Webb Telescope, developed by NASA ...

A group that oversees an observatory in Devon whose patron is Queen guitarist Sir Brian May has said it wants to take ...

This place just made TIME's list of World's Greatest Places of 2025 and Newsweek's 10 best science museums in the U.S. Here's ...

In 1707, a catastrophic shipwreck occurred in the isles of Scilly, off the southwest coast of England. Between 1400 and 2,000 ...

On a hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City ...

Inside, the access to the second floor is by a wooden spiral staircase with a conventional steepness. Also note that while McKim is an excellent example of a historic observatory, it lacks the modern ...