In Armenia, Mount Aragats looms overhead as a permanent fixture in the sky, a four-peaked volcano massif that rises from rivers and plains around its base. The mountain is more than just a physical ...

YEREVAN -- Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian recently posted an innocuous-seeming photo on his Instagram page: a snowy mountain with the caption "Aragats. The highest peak of the Republic of ...

High in the Caucasus Mountains, a former Soviet weapons-research facility now studies mysterious particles streaking in from space. This is the Cosmic Ray Research Station on Armenia's Mount Aragats.

On Mount Aragats, the highest point in the Armenian landscape, atop a volcano ribboned with glaciers, lava-born fissures, and medieval fortifications, an early 20th century observatory is leading ...

Mountain high The cosmic-ray observatory on Armenia’s Mount Aragats. (Courtesy: Vahram Mekhitarian/CC BY-SA 4.0) Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on ...

A FORGOTTEN jewel in the crown of Soviet astronomy, the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory is located on the picturesque southern slope of Mount Aragats, a four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Much ...