NASA announced the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept.

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

Size matters when it comes to telescopes. The bigger they are, the farther they can see. Prioritizing constructing large ones ...

FILE -- Snow-capped Haleakala serves as a backdrop as Paia, Maui's Scott Picton, left, plays a guitar and Saskatchewan's Shannon and Dan Runcie walk on Sugar Beach in South Maui, Hawaii, Feb. 11, 2019 ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $298 million cooperative support agreement to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) to build the 4-meter Advanced Technology ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The director of a ...

HONOLULU — Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Wednesday voted to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano, the latest observatory ...

Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Wednesday voted to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano, the latest observatory project to meet ...