More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that is a "cosmic fossil" which has remained "frozen in time" for billions of ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

Hints of the very first stars to light the Universe might be discovered in a faint radio signal feebly beaming from the dawn ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory was conceived nearly 30 years ago, and now we are finally seeing the first images captured by ...

The discovery of exoplanet TWA 7b marks a first for the James Webb Space Telescope, which until now had primarily been used ...