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

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

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.

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

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

Stunning images captured by the powerful new Euclid telescope inside the "dark universe" — a mystery-filled combination of dark matter and dark energy believed to make up 95% of the cosmos ...

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.

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 ...

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 Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy from the ...

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 ...