In the quaint seaside community of Gloucester, Mass., on Cape Ann, one gray clapboard house stands out from the rest. It has a big white dome rising from the top, with a sliding shutter that opens to ...

This Oct. 23, 2012 photo provided by Scott Jamieson shows Jamieson's home observatory when it is not in use in Eagle, Wis. The roof rolls onto support beams to give him a view of the entire night sky.

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

Under dark Himalayan skies, Pithoragarh opens its first astro-tourism observatory, turning stargazing into a new reason to travel to Uttarakhand. (Representative Image) Pithoragarh, one of Uttarakhand ...

Astrotourism-a term that captures a type of travel that primarily revolves around stargazing purposes or to visits to astronomical facilities, like observatories-is abundant in Chile. The South ...