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While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed ...
The Rochester Museum & Science Center hosted a watch party Monday at the Strasenburgh Planetarium to unveil the first images captured by the Rubin Observatory.
Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s Observatory.
On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
ALBANY — The State Museum was briefly evacuated Sunday afternoon after a tour bus backed into the building off Madison Avenue.
James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, will be returning to his role at the museum on June 2 following the results of an investigation subsequent to a recent plane incident ...
Amy Cotter, a weather observer and education specialist at the Mount Washington Observatory, discusses summit conditions amid a May nor'easter, including wind gusts, temperatures and snowfall ...
The Capital Jewish Museum where two Israeli embassy employees were gunned down leaving an antisemitism event had just days earlier announced a huge new grant to help with its security concerns.
Dr. Ed Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory, poses with a 90th birthday cake for the Observatory on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. The Observatory opened its doors to the public in 1935.
Such a museum combined with an observatory could be made a centre of activity and add to the usefulness of many institutions and organizations now in the city.