Scientists at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, broke ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

On Jan. 26, 2017, astronomers announced that the universe is expanding faster than previously thought. See photos of the quasars seen by the Hubble Space Telescope that made the discovery possible.

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and millions of glittering galaxies.

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

The U.S.-funded Rubin Observatory will chart the entire southern cosmos over the next decade.

This week, see the first cosmic images taken by the Euclid telescope, read 265-year-old letters, uncover the volcanic threat lurking beneath Italy, and more.

Measuring light that has traveled for almost 14 billion years to reach a telescope high in the Chilean Andes, the two new images reveal the universe when it was about 380,000 years old—the ...

If our 13.8-billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

The Hubble constant is a measure of the Universe's expansion, as you can tell from its units, which are kilometers per second per Megaparsec. So, each second, every Megaparsec of the Universe ...

And while 388,000 years may seem like an indescribably long time to humans, the universe is currently around 13.8 billion years old—meaning these photos are equivalent to "hours-old baby ...