At the summit of Cerro Pachón, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes is now capturing some of the oldest light in the ...

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

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

One of Lord Rosse’s greatest discoveries was the spiral structure of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). He also made a sketch of a ...

Satellite streaks are a blight on astronomy. How much are observations by the Vera Rubin super telescope going to suffer from this contamination?

Shwartz explains how astrophotography images get their mesmerizing colors, and shares a step-by-step guide to take a picture ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to unveil its first imagery at a livestreamed event today, showcasing cosmic ...

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

Perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, the newly-commissioned Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released some highly exciting first ...

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