A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when ...

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

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

A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, ...

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

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

Telescopes in Chile have detected 13-billion-year-old light, scattered by the universe's first stars revealing insights into ...