The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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