In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

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

If you want to know about Hera, a satellite hurtling through deep space toward two asteroids, you can just ask it. “My mission is to study the aftermath of NASA’s DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos ...

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

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

One image is a composite of 678 exposures taken over seven hours, capturing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae – both several ...

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

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By Mary Lee Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — The first images of the universe from the world’s ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

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