Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

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

Many galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are characterized by a flat, extended, rotating stellar disk. These disk galaxies commonly contain two ...

"The JWST images provided a window into galaxies that resemble the Milky Way's early state, bringing us valuable insights from galaxies far away." The team hopes that their study will help bridge ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Named for the pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation helped prove the existence of dark matter, the ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first images reveal a universe teeming with detail, from vibrant nebulae to distant galaxies. This telescope is set to transform our understanding of the cosmos forever ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...