Lick Observatory

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence just got a big boost, thanks to the introduction of a powerful new…

Earlier this year, the world's oldest mountaintop observatory was teetering on dying off. Not due to technology…

The Lick Observatory in the mountains east of San Jose, California, is the testing grounds for all-new technology…

Exoplanets—planets orbiting stars that aren't our Sun—seem to be popping out of the cosmic woodwork now that we know…

It may look like a movie frame showing an Evil Mad Scientist lair, but it's just a one-minute exposure photograph of…