Michelle Nichols, Director of Public Observing at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, joins FOX Chicago's ChicagoLIVE via Zoom to discuss the upcoming Blue Moon. In this segment, Nichols breaks down the ...

Anyone with a chance overnight to glance up in the sky will see something spectacular — a blood-red moon, which will happen during a total lunar eclipse. This month's full moon is due to pass through ...

Thousands of people gathered near the Adler Planetarium. It handed out free solar viewers to the crowds enjoying a picture-perfect day where everyone talked about a special feeling of community among ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Roz Varon has been exploring Chicago's Magnificent Museums, taking us behind the scenes, where visitors rarely go! On Friday, she shares some surprises about the Adler Planetarium.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Adler Planetarium opened in 1930 as the first planetarium in the western hemisphere, and one of its main attractions was a star projector: the Zeiss Mark II. This year - after a ...

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As the oldest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler Planetarium has garnered a reputation for feeling a bit dated in recent years. But the planetarium’s astrophysicists are working on “new ...

CHICAGO — Fans of Pink Floyd will have an extra reason to attend Adler Planetarium for the next year. In honor of the 50th anniversary of “The Dark Side of The Moon,” Adler is hosting a new full-dome ...

One of Chicago's most iconic attractions is raising its price of admission. During a Chicago Park District Board meeting Wednesday, commissioners granted the Planetarium permission to increase its ...

The Adler Planetarium has laid off 120 employees as the iconic Chicago institution remains closed during the coronavirus pandemic. "The Adler made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce in ...

It took three days to dismantle the Adler Planetarium’s old telescope late last fall. Putting the new one in took only about two hours Tuesday morning, said Michelle Nichols, the Chicago space ...

Professor Philip Fox, an astronomer, from left, Max Adler, the donor, Dr. Oskar von Miller and Frau Lula von Miller (also Frau von Bomhardt) in front of the Adler Planetarium, circa December1929.