Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s – the list of diseases linked to nighttime light exposure is getting longer.

Estimates of how fast the universe is expanding disagree. Could a new form of dark energy resolve the problem?

The comet’s name comes from the two observatories that discovered it: the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese ... But scattered light from the Moon and the onset of morning twilight ...

A few years ago, Egyptian archaeologists discovered what they thought were the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple dating ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the ... capable of collecting light from 11 billion years ago.

U.N. Environment Chief Environmental Economist and Coordinator Pushpam Kumar said: “The Global Observatory on Pollution and Health would enable the precise estimate of the environmental burden of ...

The laser beams are bounced around mirrors in the observatory. As gravitational waves pass through LIGO, the time it takes the laser light to bounce through the system informs physicists as to ...

The nineteenth century home, located at 1 Observatory Circle, is on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, which serves as a hub for astronomical research on all things in the sea, on land and ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have released the largest ... Large Telescope that will enable them to break incoming light down into its component spectra so that they can ...

Whipple Observatory in the Santa Rita Mountains south ... offering new guided walking tours next spring on such topics as light pollution, the “sky island” ecosystem and the birds of Mount ...

THAT’S THE NORTHERN LIGHT. RAJ DIXIT WITH THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY TOOK THIS PICTURE OF THE LIGHTS FROM THE COMMUNITY OBSERVATORY BACK IN MAY. IT WAS QUITE AN EVENT ...

After the inaugural event hosted on October 7 at the Sala Koch of the Senate of the Republic and the institutional day on October 8 at the Etnean Observatory of Catania, the National Institute of ...