Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a local event or online on Monday ...

World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

The pound has strengthened against most currencies in the last year, giving families more spending power if they're heading ...

In a landmark moment for modern astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first-ever test images, and they’re ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

The first pictures released show 10 million galaxies. It's a small start, just 0.05 percent of the overall mission to map out almost 20 billion galaxies in the future. By taking a regular survey the ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific wavelengths — fingerprints that reveal their age, motion, and chemical makeup.

A new era in space exploration has officially begun. On 23 June 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveiled its first breathtaking images of the cosmos, captured using the world's largest ...