The night sky above the world’s best observatories has long been prized for one thing above all: darkness. Now that darkness ...
On June 18, after significant bipartisan backlash from members of Congress, scientists, and the public, NSF announced in a ...
NSF pauses plans to remove Ocean Observatories Initiative sensors after a bipartisan Senate push led by Sens. Merkley and Murkowski. Lawmakers call it a win for fisheries, weather forecasting and ...
National Science Foundation officials said Thursday that they would no longer move forward with plans to remove underwater equipment used to collect data on weather events, marine ecosystems, and ...
The government has abandoned plans to dismantle a deep-ocean observation network that scientists have used to track changes ...
Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the ...
Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the ...
Launched on July 1, 2023, the European Euclid mission will observe billions of galaxies over one-third of the sky to create a map of the Universe. But Euclid's map will be in black and white; ...
Researchers from Italy, Chile and Galicia have studied and compared the light pollution levels at major astronomical observatories across the world. The study shows that light is polluting the sky ...
Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...