The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, unveiling galaxies, nebulae and over 2,000 new asteroids.

The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) was established in 1986 by the NRC with support from the Canadian Space Agency as 1 of 3 world-wide distribution centres for Hubble Space Telescope data. This ...

"Astronomy for our ancestors was very integral to their lives. We needed it for finding food, for learning law [and] knowing how to direct yourselves at night time,” Ms Banks told The Point.

Definition: Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The initial detection of radio waves from the astronomical object was created in the 1930s ...

Professor George Efstathiou has been awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy, one of the biggest prizes in the field. Efstathiou, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at Cambridge's Institute of ...

Columbia News is celebrating 11 scientific discoveries that took place this year, some of which were supported by vital federal research funding. As Columbia University continues to engage with the ...

In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar telescope on Maui and UH's Institute for Astronomy.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...

The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning over two millennia, from 221 BC to 1911 AD, and providing detailed ...