On 1 October 2019, the nighttime astronomy facilities supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) transitioned to operating as one organization, NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy ...

A new report by the National Research Council identifies the highest- priority research activities for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade that will “set the nation firmly on the path to ...

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very ...

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) has selected Dr. David Silva as the new director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), based in Tucson, Arizona. Silva ...

Optical astronomy is the research area focused on observing and analyzing electromagnetic radiation in the optical band, typically encompassing near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths ...

The path from Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) data to science results is not simple. The scope of the LSST survey, the volume and rate of the data, will require additional capabilities for the ...

As Armenia prepares to host the IAU Communicating Astronomy with the Public (CAP2026) Conference for the first time, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The more astronomers consider the advent of satellite megaconstellations, the more anxious they ...

Winter in Wyoming is hardly a trifle and can be as unpredictable as the wind. But astronomically, this part of the intermountain West has three things going for it —- mostly clear dark skies, with low ...

Fifty years ago, just before the first decadal survey in astronomy (the Whitford report), astronomy and astrophysics was practiced very differently than it is today. Virtually all telescopes were in ...