The National Weather Service expects a storm to hit Mount Hamilton on Friday night and bring 2 to 2 1/2 inches of rain to the mountaintop by Tuesday morning, most of it falling by Sunday afternoon.

The Lick Observatory said the astronomical research facility is still drying out the building 20 days since experiencing a ...

Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton is still not open to the public, about two weeks after gusts of wind whipping around at ...

A powerful winter storm damaged Lick Observatory’s Great Refractor telescope, forcing an indefinite closure as crews work to ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory. Now, with back-to-back ...

Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO)—Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history—is pleased to present the seventh “Sunday Afternoon ...

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Stellaphane Observatory National Historic Landmark of Springfield received an early present this holiday season: a donated observatory dome that was almost sold as scrap metal. The ...

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Lowell Observatory, Arizona's oldest center for astronomy, is launching a campaign to recruit an army of benefactors to repair the telescope and dome from which Percival Lowell discovered what he said ...

After over two decades closed, Indiana State University’s John C. Hook Memorial Observatory Dome will reopen to the campus and community, thanks to the revitalization efforts of a student and alumnus.