ENNIS, Texas — As you're reading this, people from around the nation and the world are gearing up to trek to Texas to see our total eclipse on April 8. Off of Old City Lake in Ennis, where totality is ...

Perihelion is the point on an orbital course that brings a body closest to the sun. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is an Oort cloud comet ...

It's a project some say is out of this world... "This is just perfect," explains Roger Joyner. "I can walk outside, open it up." A homemade observatory, that seemed to fit right into Roger's scope of ...

The article discusses the practicality and various setups of backyard observatories for amateur astronomers, ranging from elaborate custom-built structures to simple designated locations. It ...

LENOIR CITY (WATE) – To say Vincente Diaz is over the moon for the total solar eclipse is an understatement. The retired chemist with a passion for astronomy has his own backyard observatory named ...

CANNON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The red tendrils of a nebula arcing out into the deep black of outer space, Mike Cortright can see from his backyard observatory, beginning with the push of a button. Backyard ...

Imagine that you're an astronomy enthusiast with the financial resources of Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark -- what would you do to feed your hobby? Well, obviously you'd launch your own Hubble-esque space ...

Oh that? It’s just the backyard observatory we built last summer. You know, for fun. This is a conversation we image [Kakon24] and his dad are having quite often ...

SAN DIEGO — Paul Krizak is a Qualcomm engineer by day, avid astronomer by night. He loves space so much he turned a childhood dream into reality — in his own backyard. “You can see Jupiter, Saturn, ...

A comet older than our Solar System is within backyard astronomers’ reach. Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor discovered in July 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey in Chile, has emerged ...

The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...