Big Bear Lake, a woodsy California town tucked within the San Bernardino Mountains, is known at once for its ski resorts and for its tranquil namesake lake. But while standing on the shoreline or ...

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.

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 ...

On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall in Auburn Hills — stands a hidden landmark to the history of science, astronomy and ...

After Santa delivered big trouble to Lick Observatory — the iconic astronomy complex atop Mount Hamilton east of San Jose where ferocious winds early Christmas morning blasted open the steel dome ...

The gate to Mount Wilson’s campus opens at 10:00am daily and closes at 5:00pm from early April through November. Entrance to the grounds is free. Visitors can hike, gaze at the telescope domes and ...