To mark World Heritage Day, the government announced that Birr Castle Demesne in County Offaly and Dunsink Observatory just ...

In an important first step toward designation, Dunsink Observatory, and Birr Castle Demesne have been added to Ireland's ...

Three observatories across the island of Ireland that have played key roles in astronomical and scientific discoveries have ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home ... relocate the observatory operations, including some of the existing 19th century telescopes ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have uncovered new insights about 2024 YR4. This is an Earth-crossing ...

The historic Mount Wilson Observatory is reopening to the public more than four months after the devastating Eaton Fire ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope finds molecules that could only be produced by life in the atmosphere of an alien ...

A city celebrated for its food scene also provides hiking, cycling and stargazing in the natural beauty of the desert.

After a six-week ocean voyage, a week spent waiting to offload, and another week trekking through the mountains, the first major component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived ...