Last week the Rubin Observatory released the first data from a newly commissioned telescope. Astronomers, engineers and ...

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

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

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

They’ve turned on the sky. That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...