The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

A new study used deep-space radio signals to locate the universe’s missing baryonic matter—most of it hiding in plain sight.

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

The first deep space images from a mountaintop observatory in Chile have scientists excited for what they could soon learn ...

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

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

Unlike galaxies with active supermassive black holes, the bright source near NGC 5530’s center is actually a nearby star in ...

Explore the UGC 10214, the Tadpole Galaxy, a faint, peculiar spiral galaxy in Draco with a dramatic tidal tail and active ...

New images suggest the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is on track to become astronomy’s most ambitious and productive eye on the ...

New research shows galaxies bursting with stars for the first time—offering rare insight into how the Milky Way began.

An object astronomers initially thought to be a high-speed burst of radio waves from deep space last year has been revealed ...