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 Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere ...

The images reveal breathtaking views of star-forming regions, including massive and colorful gas and dust clouds swirling 9,000 light-years from Earth. Located atop the summit of Cerro Pachón in ...

Later this year, the Rubin Observatory will launch its Legacy Survey of Space and Time. This 10-year project aims to scan the ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera. C.

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...