The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

An infrared image shows a brown dwarf discovered by astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea on Feb. 23, 2024. Data from both the observatory and telescope ...

The Discovery Telescope is one of the largest in the country. It is located in Happy Jack, about 50 miles away from the Lowell Observatory. The telescope has been instrumental in discovering ...

The observatory is on the grounds of the Julian Curtiss School and is open the first and third Wednesdays.

Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An understandable development, given the several such instruments that have been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A dramatic rise in the number of internet satellites ...

School District U-46’s Planetarium and Observatory has been named a member of the Alliance of Historic Observatories.

Mercury spill closes Sunspot Solar Observatory and nearby forest trails indefinitely, though officials say there is no public ...