Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies have just been unveiled ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side.

The object's last perihelion also came, coincidentally, during the same year that Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto with a 13-inch (330mm) telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.

An original list of potential names for the planet Clyde Tombaugh discovered in 1930 is on display at the Lowell Observatory. Pluto was a name suggested in a letter to Tombaugh by Venetia Burney ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Cold, ...

From basic techniques to the kit you need, plus where to go to capture the best pictures, here’s how to get started in astrophotography. Trying to photograph the night sky can be challenging ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Cold, dark and ...

FLAGSTAFF — At Lowell Observatory, where Pluto was discovered in 1930, a crowd waited anxiously Tuesday afternoon for the “beep” that would signal New Horizons had successfully completed its ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid that acts like a comet.

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