Like a great concrete bowl floating upside down above a vast rooftop in Golden Gate Park, a planetarium dome has risen where the California Academy of Sciences is building its new $392 million home -- ...

A Dobsonian reflecting telescope with a 10-inch diameter mirror owned by the Staerkel Planetarium. A Dobsonian reflecting telescope with a 10-inch diameter mirror owned by the Staerkel Planetarium.

"Has been resurrecting something almost from the dead," designer says ...

It’s a quiet, sunny summer afternoon at the University of Washington’s physics-astronomy complex. But inside the hushed, empty auditorium building, Jake VanderPlas has turned off the lights and shut ...

The Jackson Planetarium has come a long way since it closed four years ago for renovation. Now, 16 WAPT News has a first look at plans for the inside of the attraction.Architects CDFL designed a new ...

This Carl Zeiss Model M 1015 star projector has been at the William M. Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College in Champaign since the planetarium opened 35 years ago. Erik Johnson Erik Johnson This ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PORTLAND — An inside look at the recent Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Sunday night on May 15 into early Monday morning on May 16, a total lunar eclipse was visible, if the weather didn’t get in your way. The last one to make an appearance was in January ...

The sky’s is hardly the limit for this Midwood school. A planetarium deep inside Edward R. Murrow High School is set to reopen following a massive three-year makeover. The $500,000 renovation project ...