The NSF’s National Solar Observatory, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, announced the receipt of a prestigious Brinson Prize Fellowship from The Brinson Foundation. The award will support a ...

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are ...

The National Observatory of Athens, Greece played a pivotal role in the first optical communication link with a spacecraft in ...

The National Solar Observatory (NSO), which operates the telescope, said that the image was taken during technical testing and that the VTF is not yet even fully operational.

"AURA is addressing a security issue at the National Solar Observatory facility at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico and has decided to temporarily vacate the facility as a precautionary measure," Shari ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory sits on land leased by the National Science Foundation from the Tohono O’odham Nation, whose people refer to the 6,875-foot mountain peak as Iolkam.

About 40 of the National Solar Observatory staff will be transferred to Maui and the remaining 60 will be assigned to the new headquarters. The transition to a new headquarters could begin as ...

Scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology produced the finest images of the Sun’s corona to date. To make these ...

ANCHORAGE, AK — There was a pindrop silence in the room on Tuesday (June 10), as Christoph Keller, director of the National Solar Observatory, spoke on stage here at the 246th American ...