Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

Born June 29, 1868, in Chicago, George Ellery Hale revolutionized American astronomy by, among other things, championing the ...

Astronomers Stephen Levine and Gerard van Belle (both near center) prepare our group of a dozen for a night of observing with the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope in the instrument’s control room.

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, was born on the date I’m posting this article (June 17) way back in 1800, in York, England. Astronomers know him as the person who built (OK, he supervised ...

Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who had arrived at Mount Wilson a few years before Hubble, applied Leavitt’s technique to his own observations. By mapping Cepheids in the ball-shaped agglomerations of ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel ...

Astronomers eager to use the Rubin Observatory frequently talk about the value of just looking at the universe. Basic research is a public good, they say, that can provide new insight into our ...

Steward Observatory kicks off its yearslong centennial celebration with a lecture and star party Saturday in Oracle, where its namesake benefactor, Lavinia Steward, lived. Steward moved to Oracle ...

Sheila Foster, A’ja Wilson on our Mount Rushmore of Gamecocks. See who else made it By Michael Sauls Updated June 24, 2025 9:38 AM Gamecock greats Sheila Foster and A’ja Wilson (File photos) ...

"It's like bugs on a windshield." When astronomers first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory in the 1990s, the sky above the Chilean Cerro Pachón, where the star-observing machine was to be ...

Creating a Mount Rushmore for the South Carolina women’s basketball program was not an easy task. It’s hard to pick just four players from a program that has produced 56 All-SEC selections, 23 ...

Creating a Mount Rushmore for the South Carolina women’s basketball program was not an easy task. It’s hard to pick just four players from a program that has produced 56 All-SEC selections, 23 ...