Over the past few weeks, articles and reports have been published about this month’s “planetary alignment.” This celestial event is at its peak this week, and can be seen from WashU’s Crow Observatory ...

JD Vance and his family have officially moved into the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory — and they are ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Weather observers on Mount Washington endure extreme cold and high winds to collect crucial data, maintaining one of the longest U.S. climatological records.

If you’ve been thinking the recent weather has been about as cold as it can get, try working at the highest point in New ...

As Los Angeles battles the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have already devastated thousands of homes and other buildings, ...

The NIAOT in Nanjing was placed on Washington’s entity list in 2023, not long after shipping the finished spectrograph.

Although she has been caricatured for her inability to directly answer questions, Harris does have a future in “party politics and government service, if she wants it,” per University of ...

Every vice president since Mondale has resided in the home, located nearly three miles from the White House, and Vance is set ...

Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington may be the most famous address in the United States. Every president since John Adams has ...

Without vegetation for fuel close to the tower, the fire moved on. The communications equipment and Observatory were not ...