At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a digital camera that will create an unparalleled map of the cosmos.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

A ground telescope in Chile detected cosmic polarization signals, confirming the universe’s first stars' timeline.

NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...