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

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ... .</ ...

The beauty of the first pictures to emerge from the James Webb Space Telescope is breathtaking. And when you reflect on what you’re actually looking at, the pictures are mind-boggling, too ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first ...

Using gravitational lensing and a massive galaxy cluster located 3.2 billion light-years away the powerful space telescope replicated a distant galaxy three times in a single image.

Radio interferometry is a technique in radio astronomy where signals from two or more radio telescopes are combined to ...

Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted ...

From bright stars to distant galaxies, the debut cosmic images captured by Europe's Euclid space telescope are so stunning as to rival those of NASA's James Webb Telescope. Four months after it ...

Larkin Carey, an optical engineer, examining two test mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope’s on a prototype at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in 2014. Image ...