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 ...

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

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

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

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

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 ...

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

Their incredible interactive map, dubbed COSMOS-Web, lets you scroll through almost 800,000 galaxies and peer back as far as 13.5 billion years. That means looking back through 98 per cent of cosmic ...

After many hours of staring unblinking at a small patch of sky, JWST has given us the most detailed map ever obtained of a corner of the Universe.