Walking into the huge domed room where the telescope is located was a remarkable experience. Yerkes Observatory was born in the late 1800s when a university president, a young enterprising ...

Walking into the huge domed room where the telescope is located was a remarkable experience. Yerkes Observatory was born in the late 1800s when a university president, a young enterprising ...

Host Angela explores the Blackbird Creative Lab at Yerkes Observatory. Beyond performance training, artists receive practical career guidance while creating new works in a historic astronomical ...

Colman, who was among the leaders of the effort to save, restore and revitalize Yerkes Observatory that began when the University of Chicago announced its closing in 2018, served as the organization’s ...

The Eaton Fire made a run for Mount Wilson on Thursday - but the historic observatory and telescope were not damaged, thanks to firefighters.

But the Mount Wilson Observatory and the telescope were not damaged, thanks to firefighters' efforts, said L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone. "No buildings or infrastructure have been damaged ...

The observatory was first proposed in 2001. Then called the Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), it grew out of an earlier concept for an instrument that would study dark matter ...