Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

The city of Flagstaff has taken big steps to preserve the clarity of its night sky. Find out the best ways to experience the ...

The phenomenon of seeing familiar patterns in objects where none exists is called pareidolia. In terms of our evolution, it ...

This observatory was founded in 1894 by the Harvard-graduated mathematician Percival Lowell. Throughout the years, the observatory has been credited with making a handful of important findings.

Author Percival Lowell became one of space's first popularizers when he wrote many books for the general public back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In these books and other writings ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kendrick Lamar aims to infuse his Los Angeles hip-hop flavor into New Orleans while staying true to his storytelling roots during Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime performance.

After a successful recruiting and development career that has spanned the nonprofit, corporate and higher education worlds, political science alumna Sophan Smith ’02 has come full circle as the new ...

Lowell Observatory will be hosting the 2025 I Heart Pluto Festival from Feb. 13 to 17, celebrating the planet and its ...

BOSTON — On the run for more than three years, Darasy Chhim, alleged member of Lowell’s One Family Clique, was captured by police for his suspected role in a multistate drug trafficking ...

LIRA is a partnership with the UMass Lowell Office of Alumni Relations and Office of Community Relations. Read Mark D. Levine's article titled, "Learning as a Later Life Passion." Please click on any ...

Partly cloudy with a high of 25 °F (-3.9 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 75% chance of precipitation. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 21 °F ...

BILLERICA, Mass. (WWLP) – The Billerica Police Department has arrested three men from Lowell in connection with a break-in and safe theft at the Solomon VFW Post. Billerica Police Chief Roy ...