Supercluster, a website dedicated to telling humanity’s greatest outer space stories.David Rankin is the closest thing Earth has to a space superhero. As an observer and operations engineer at the ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science, near the village of Nizhny Arkhyz, is hosting a contemporary art exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of its construction.

To the delight of local and regional astronomers, Universities Space Research Association (USRA) today announced the opening of the USRA Remote Observation Center at its headquarters location in ...

Remote astronomical imaging offers advantages over on-site observation, eliminating travel, setup time, and weather-related setbacks. Successful remote imaging necessitates robust, reliable equipment ...

December 2, 2008 Until November, Tristan da Cunha was home only to 271 people, a small flightless bird, and a piece of land named Inaccessible Island. Now the world's most remote inhabited archipelago ...

A mysterious solar observatory evacuation in remote New Mexico is sparking an array of conspiracy theories ranging from alien sightings to foreign spies. The Sunspot Solar Observatory was unexpectedly ...

This new image taken of the skies above Chile’s Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory shows bright red streaks in the sky known as red sprites. Red sprites ...

I’m a volunteer docent at the Rancho Mirage Library and Observatory, giving weekly tours of the cosmos. As the Observatory approaches its sixth anniversary, I wanted to briefly share the top 10,000 ...

Uniquely is a Fresno Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Fresno area so special. Keith Quattrocchi’s first foray into astronomy was as ...

The FBI showed up and evacuated the remote Sunspot solar observatory in southern New Mexico. Almost a week later, no one knows why. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...