I spent part of last week in one of my favorite places, Flagstaff, Arizona, at Lowell Observatory. This storied institution is well known, and as I have written about previously, holds a unique ...

Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, astronomer Scott Manley and acclaimed author Mary Robinette Kowal, known for ...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), a 4.3-meter optical telescope operated by Lowell Observatory, is pictured on a clear winter day near Happy Jack, Arizona. Credit: SSR2000/Wikimedia Commons ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

Lowell Observatory is ranked #2 out of 18 things to do in Flagstaff. ... Today, the observatory is home to a variety of telescopes, as well as artifacts like Lowell's first telescope, ...

This month’s full moon is just days away, and Tyler Richey-Yowell, an astronomer with the Lowell Observatory, shared her expertise on the unique attributes this month’s moon brings during its ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

The night sky takes center stage as National Meteor Watch Day begins, and stargazers look up for a chance to witness nature’s ...

Vera Rubin fundamentally advanced our knowledge of galactic dynamics, laid the groundwork for dark matter research, and ...

Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Mary Robinette Kowal, who created alternate-history astronauts in her Lady ...

When you become a young observer of the skies, happy to be out in a dark field at night with a 6-inch or 8-inch scope, you never dream of the kind of night of observing I experienced on Thursday ...