A remarkable exhibition of historic astronomical drawings, including sketches believed to have influenced Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, has opened at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium.

That instrumentation on Axial Caldera’s summit makes it the the most advanced underwater volcanic observatory in the world. Researchers who have monitored this underwater volcano since 1997 can base ...

“Destroying this treasure [the observatory] is a real atrocity, not only for Chile, but for all of humanity,” says Ruiz, the first woman in the country to receive the National Prize for Exact Sciences ...

(Image credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory) Shining loops of plasma on the surface of the sun "flicker" hours before they unleash potentially dangerous solar flares, a new study shows.