Visitors to Chicago love to check out the city's landmarks and natural settings, but there's no better spot for seeing it all ...

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

The nonprofit Yerkes Future Foundation, which opened the shuttered former University of Chicago observatory in 2022 after four years of dormancy, owns two homes on Parkhurst — the Otto Struve Home and ...

The Board of Trustees of Clarkson University has named Michelle B. Larson, PhD, the institution's 19th president. Larson will be the first woman to lead the university in its 128-year history. Larson ...

Adler Planetarium announced Wednesday that Michelle Larson is stepping down as president and CEO after more than a decade on ...

Chicago resident Danielle Carter says Mayor Brandon Johnson is 'hell-bent' on destroying the city on 'The Evening Edit.' ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson argued today infrastructure improvements in and around the city's Museum Campus are needed regardless ...

Multiple Chicago-area attractions and museums are offering free admission days for Illinois residents for February 2025, with ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.