Ironically it was the very destroyer of Baghdad, Halaku Khan under whose auspices the Maragha Observatory was established in the Ilkhanate in today's North Western Iran. The story goes that the ...

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, with its future uncertain, this historic site is at risk. Near the small ...

NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. By Austyn Gaffney On the flanks of the largest ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — In 1894, Lowell Observatory began exploring the stars, almost 20 years before Arizona became a state. The museum gets over 100,000 visitors per year and was named the best ...

While that quest is still ongoing, the observatory made history as the place where assistant Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. (If you’re still not over its dwarf planet demotion ...

On the flanks of the largest active volcano on earth, the Mauna Loa Observatory tracks the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are warming the planet and has been doing so since 1958.

It will be the world's largest radio observatory, comprised of two sites located in separate countries. Sites in Australia and South Africa will be "supported by institutions and facilities around ...

For example, the camera on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, which is expected to begin observations later this year, will pan the sky in six bands of wavelengths. In contrast, the James ...

Finding out what happened to Jack, from Flax Bourton, has been a gruelling, year-long challenge for his family, who still retain hope, even now, that answers will be found and they'll learn what ...

The observatory is capable of pinpointing the location and number of these icy compounds in our galaxy, giving researchers a better sense of their abundance. SPHEREx is set to launch at 10:09 p.m ...

Winds of 118 km/h or greater were expected and residents should stay indoors, away from windows and exposed doors, the Observatory said. The agency also issued an amber rainstorm warning at 7.45pm ...

A teenager who died in an XL bully dog attack sustained fatal injuries to her neck, the opening of an inquest into her death has heard. Morgan Dorsett, from Shrewsbury, died following the incident ...