No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's primary mirror is 8.4 meters in diameter, which makes it one of the largest optical ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

Jupiter will be too close to the sun to see Tuesday, but it will move farther out in the dawn sky and on Aug. 12 will have a ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets ...