A team of astronomers has detected 19 quasars, revealing details about supermassive black holes and cosmic dynamics.

Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...

funded in part by contributions from the Detroit-based McGregor and Rackham Funds and developed in close collaboration with astronomers from the esteemed Mt. Wilson solar observatory in California ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Despite subzero temperatures, scientists at the Mount Washington Observatory are working hard more than 6,000 feet above sea level. "It is really freaking cold, I guess is the scientific way to ...

has given the 76-year-old telescope at the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory an unmatched ability to capture fainter objects and reveal unprecedented details of the universe.

As US astronomers cheer the completion of the state-of-the-art project to rejuvenate the iconic Hale Telescope, one key collaborator is locked out of the celebrations and banned from exporting to the ...

Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to "restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

The house that's served as the residence for every vice president from Walter Mondale to Kamala Harris and now JD Vance is located on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.

Mount Ibu, on the remote island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, sent a column of smoke up to four kilometers (2.5 miles) into the sky in an eruption Wednesday. Indonesian officials raised ...

Palomar 5 stands out because of its loose, spread-out formation and long tidal stream—a vast river of stars trailing behind it. These stellar streams were hard to detect in the past, but with the help ...