A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

In this paper, we present a deep nonparametric Bayesian method to synthesize a light field from a single image. Conventionally, light-field capture requires special optical architecture, and the gain ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

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

In the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, lies Sedna, one of the most mysterious objects ever ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The observatory will continue the legacy of its ...

Right now the comet lingers 16 ½ astronomical units from the Sun, out past Neptune, yet it’s moving a brisk 22,000 mph on a course that will carry it no closer than Saturn in 2031. Hubble’s wide-field ...