The McCormick Observatory was the third built on the Grounds. The first was built by Charles Bonnycastle, UVA’s first natural ...

Many in the University of Virginia community have trekked to the top of Observatory Hill to visit the Leander McCormick Observatory, dedicated in 1885 and still operating 140 years later. But how many ...

I spent part of last week in one of my favorite places, Flagstaff, Arizona, at Lowell Observatory. This storied institution is well known, and as I have written about previously, holds a unique place ...

Those intriguing eats and sips are not on the menu at a certain observatory-adjacent snack spot — sandwiches, salads, and yummy earthbound sweets are the theme — but we can pretend we're floating in ...