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The name "Why" itself is perhaps the most distinctive aspect of this tiny Arizona town. At the time of its naming, state law ...

Eliana Gorov didn't have to go far from her home in Las Vegas to view the Milky Way with her naked eyes. When she peered through a telescope during Great Basin National Park's astronomy program, she ...

You probably know the chocolate-inspired town of Hershey is located in Pennsylvania, and you might know a thing or two about ...

Her next big star party, though, is likely to be at her new home out in the country, where she and her husband Marty recently moved, all so they could build their very own observatory ... doesn’t ...

A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit Sunday on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies. The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of ...

A friend was previewing Epic Universe recently and sent a text that read “I really should have studied.” He knew details ...

Griffith Observatory will host a live online broadcast of the total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, allowing viewers to watch the celestial event remotely. The broadcast will begin at 8:50 p.m. on ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never ... SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth ...