A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the ...

"Who ya gonna believe - me or your own eyes?" This famous challenge appears in a scene from the 1933 film Duck Soup. Chico ...

In a recent feature published by Space.com, Vermont-based astrophotographer Dr. Michele Hernandez Bayliss has revealed a ...

Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton is that kind of place – a celestial treasure perched above Silicon Valley that somehow remains off the radar for many Californians despite being one of the most ...

The research center that Lick’s fortune helped create has a visitors center and gift shop open Saturday and Sunday from noon ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

As modern detectors carve new paths on the lunar surface, have humans ever considered that over a thousand years ago, Tang Dynasty literati had already depicted a surreal image of the moon through ...