From its establishment in 1966 as the Smithsonian Mount Hopkins Observatory, FLWO has hosted a world-class suite of telescopes designed for a wide variety of purposes. The largest visible-light ...

Paris (AFP) – A neutrino with 30 times more energy than any previously seen on Earth was detected by an unfinished observatory at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea after travelling from beyond ...

“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.

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 ...