Liquid mercury contamination has permanently shut down the Dunn Solar Telescope as NSF moves ahead with demolition in ...

The Sunspot Solar Observatory near Cloudcroft is scheduled for demolition, leaving fans and former residents devastated over the loss of this piece of New Mexico history.

The U.S. National Science Foundation says it will demolish the Sacramento Peak Observatory, also known as Sunspot Solar Observatory ...

The National Science Foundation said a decades-old observatory in southern New Mexico will be torn down. Officials said ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday it will go ahead with demolition and site restoration at the ...

Watch NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory's M9.6-class flare. Credit: NASA/SDO/Helio Viewer | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Lost in Space by Cobby Costa / courtesy of Epidemic Sound ...

Sunspot AR3184 erupted with an X1.9-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the fireworks. The ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a partial solar eclipse. See its view in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | ...

New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric ...

On Monday, March 2, the observatory at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in Kenwood will host a “Lunar Eclipse Focus Night” to prepare attendees for a rare ‘Blood Moon’ visible ...

Rubin Observatory begins sending hundreds of thousands of nightly alerts as it prepares for its 10-year sky survey, tracking supernovae, asteroids, galaxies and other changing objects in near real ...