The Very Large Array, located in New Mexico, is part of facility of the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory. (Bettymaya Foott, NRAO/AUI/NSF; available under Creative ...
The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has promised “universal access to see what is one of the greatest telescopes in Britain” ...
More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...
The banner over the bar stated “Science Is Real,” and on a recent Monday night, the science was very real. “Astronomy on Tap Charlottesville,” which has brought the wonders of the universe to ...
The Department's annual fund supports undergraduate research, scholarships, lab upgrades, and public outreach efforts in physics & astronomy. This fund supports the Sac State Planetarium’s educational ...
Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...
The National Science Foundation takes a step (just one) toward an “extremely large telescope.” By Dennis Overbye The United States should commit $1.6 billion to building an “extremely large telescope” ...
Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was Interstellar's science advisor. The movie explores scientific concepts like wormholes and time dilation. Interstellar depicts a space mission searching ...