The National Weather Service expects a storm to hit Mount Hamilton on Friday night and bring 2 to 2 1/2 inches of rain to the ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich, London, ...

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There are many reasons you may need one of the best small telescopes. Perhaps you'd like to travel to one of the best locations for stargazing. Perhaps you are limited on observatory space, or want ...

Lowell Observatory, Arizona's oldest center for astronomy, is launching a campaign to recruit an army of benefactors to repair the telescope and dome from which Percival Lowell discovered what he said ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope has reached its highest point with assembly of the roof's dome and large sliding doors that will shield the observatory. The European Southern Observatory ...

McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 meters) tall. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...