Sherwood Observatory’s new planetarium will help in getting more young people into STEM subjects, a senior councillor has said. The £6.8 million project, built on an old Victorian reservoir at the ...

Few things in the Star Wars universe are as awe-inspiring as the intricate world-building and environmental design. The Observatory Weather Stations concept art for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor ...

Animal welfare becomes the responsibility of the animals themselves in the gorgeous, hypnotic Latvian animated feature “Flow,” in which a solitary cat encounters a catastrophic flood and ...

The red supergiant star is about 2,000 times larger than the sun. Astronomers have taken a close-up photo of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time, the European Southern ...

The number of dogs euthanized in animal shelters run by the city of L.A. has skyrocketed this year. From January to September, 1,224 dogs were euthanized at the city’s six shelters — a 72% ...

Keller Kopf does research on long-lived animals and has received grants associated with the management and conservation of fisheries and wildlife. In humans and other animals, ageing is generally ...

Some rare bits of Christmas mythology are even stranger still—like the one that claims that at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, animals gain the power of speech. The legend—most ...

More than 70 animals, including an African lion and two brown bears, were sent by plane with veterinarians from Moscow’s zoo to be transferred to a zoo in Pyongyang. The animals were “a gift ...

A second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields or forests. By Emily Anthes and Catrin Einhorn President-elect Donald J.

On Saturday, Nov. 16, in Flagstaff, Arizona, the astronomy world changed a bit. Lowell Observatory has long been a beacon of history in the cosmic universe. Here, Boston Brahmin Percival Lowell ...