The Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium Located on Chicago's lake, The Adler Planetarium is the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Adler Planetarium is the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere! Located on Chicago’s lakeshore, the museum typically hosts more than half a million visitors each year and reaches millions more through youth STEAM programs, neighborhood skywatching events, people-powered research, and other outreach efforts. Today, the Adler is bringing our unique approach—scientific exploration rooted in

community and connection—to guests from around the world who can enjoy the digital Adler from their own homes, libraries, schools or offices.

Have you heard? Former NASA Chief Scientist and Astronaut John Grunsfeld is visiting the Adler!For one night only at Cel...
08/26/2026

Have you heard? Former NASA Chief Scientist and Astronaut John Grunsfeld is visiting the Adler!

For one night only at Celestial Bash: To the Moon and Beyond—the Adler’s annual fundraising event—you’ll have the opportunity to hear John talk about his time working on the Hubble Space Telescope and his personal connections to the Adler. Plus:

⭐ Journey through the stars like the Artemis II astronauts in our full-dome, immersive space station
⭐ Find your eye in the sky with the help of Adler astrophysicists
⭐ See the night sky through small scopes and our Doane Observatory, weather permitting

Ready to join the best party of the year? Click the link to get your tickets and take advantage of our early bird pricing today: https://bit.ly/3SOG2g2

08/25/2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch this weekend! We will be celebrating the launch at the Adler from 10am-3pm Saturday and Sunday (Aug 29 and 30) with fun activities and popup talks included with general admission! Come party with us!🚀

08/20/2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at the end of the month! We hope you’ll join us at the museum August 29 and 30th to send it off in style! But the launch party is just the beginning. Scientists will need help from volunteers (like you!) to analyze data from this incredible new cosmic observatory. Watch NASA's Dr. Dominic Benford explain how YOU can help, then head on over to zooniverse.org today to become a volunteer!

08/18/2026

Would you leave Earth to visit another world? 🌍🪐

We asked Adler astrophysicist Dr. Shanika Galaudage a big question: if given the chance to travel to another celestial body…would she actually go?

Some people dream of space travel. Others are perfectly happy staying right here on Earth.

Where do you land?

Want to learn more about how crazy the universe can be? Come see...

08/13/2026

Reviews are in for the 's Lost Weekend Planetarium Experience!
Friend of the Adler Denise Donovan is a Chicago dance instructor/choreographer. Hear her thoughts on the show! Who's coming tomorrow?

Time to , because the Perseid meteor shower peaks late tonight and into the early morning hours of August 13th! Meteors...
08/12/2026

Time to , because the Perseid meteor shower peaks late tonight and into the early morning hours of August 13th!

Meteors will be most numerous in the hours after midnight on August 13th. Expect about 50-70 meteors per hour under very dark skies far from city lights, and 5-15 per hour under light-polluted skies. This year’s peak also occurs just a few hours after the new Moon, so the Moon’s light will not interfere with meteor visibility this year. Happy gazing☄️

08/11/2026

🌜Partial eclipses are cool too!!🌞

Tomorrow, parts of the Northern US and Canada will be experiencing a partial solar eclipse! Here in Chicago, it will be SO partial that it likely won't even be detectable through safe solar glasses. Folks located in parts of Alaska and Maine will get more of a show!

Remember, NEVER look directly at the Sun!

Visit TimeAndDate.com/eclipse for visibility in your location.

Visit the Adler Planetarium to learn more about our Sun and Moon!

Be one of the first people in the world to hear Phoebe’s new album, Lost Weekend, and lose yourself in spectacular visua...
08/07/2026

Be one of the first people in the world to hear Phoebe’s new album, Lost Weekend, and lose yourself in spectacular visuals under the dome!✨

Tickets sold out in an hour—but we just released a handful of extra tickets to each show, so check the link in our bio before they sell out!

The Lost Weekend Experience is a breathtaking audiovisual journey that travels from the star-filled skies of Madagascar and the shimmering Northern Lights above Iceland’s glaciers to the powerful storms across Texas. National Geographic night sky explorer Babak Tafreshi spent two decades documenting these extraordinary nocturnal scenes in nearly 20 countries.

The Adler is the only place in Chicago (and one of just 35 in the United States) where you can experience this immersive, multisensory, phones-down event!

This event is presented in partnership with Spotify and COSM.

08/06/2026

Breaking: SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon.

08/04/2026

As the world flocks to see a man haunted by his failures in 70mm IMAX theaters, we wanted to share this similarly moving cinematic masterpiece produced for us by . See the full short film on our YouTube channel, as Nolan intended.

Address

1300 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL
60605

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 4pm - 10pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm
Sunday 9am - 4pm

Telephone

+13129227827

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