NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and beautiful, star-studded Milky Way.

A groundbreaking telescope currently being built in northern Chile could detect potential ... order of magnitude and will be able to provide images 16 times sharper than those captured by the ...

The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

This observatory has been under construction on a mountaintop in Chile for years ... And the observatory can take hundreds of these giant images a night. That's because its telescope is more compact ...

This observatory has been under construction on a mountaintop in Chile for years ... can take hundreds of these giant images a night. That's because its telescope is more compact and rigid ...