Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 cosmic changes in one night, launching its 10-year mission to create a real-time movie of ...

Six planets, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter, will be visible, according to NASA. Seeing a parade of six ...

Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans! Using the world's largest radio telescope array, The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble that its backers say can be built ...

Scientists all over the world are celebrating because of a discovery made by a telescope's camera built in the Bay Area. New objects, including some of the biggest, fastest moving asteroids ever seen, ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope continues to make headlines, a much larger observatory is quietly being built on Earth. The Extremely Large Telescope will use a mirror nearly 40 meters across, ...

Astronomers and cosmologists aren’t known for being incredible at adjectives. Take the Very Large Telescope, or the European Extremely Large Telescope, or even the big bang. But they weren’t wrong ...

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant stellar explosion ever recorded, revealing a massive star’s demise when the ...

Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delivered a mid-infrared image showing shells of ...