Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes is now capturing some of the oldest light in the ...

The new observatory will allow astronomers to step through space and time like never before — these videos give us a taste of how.

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

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

The Rubin team in central Chile is operating with cooperation from a vast global network with major centers in France, the U.K., Stanford University and Tucson, Arizona. (fix coming with names of ...

The groundbreaking 3.2 gigapixel camera is designed to repeatedly survey the entire sky every few nights to create the first ...

Chinese scientists' claims that their "Sky Eye" telescope could have picked up signals from intelligent aliens have been met with skepticism by an American colleague.

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

A NASA satellite that went silent nearly 60 years ago has shocked scientists by suddenly firing off one of the most powerful ...

Serpens the Serpent is unique among the constellations because it’s separated into two parts with Ophiuchus the ...