Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Rubin’s life was shaped by curiosity, persistence, and a telescope made from spare parts. Born in Philadelphia in 1928 and raised in Washington, DC, she was ten years old when she began to ...

The University of Arizona is making significant strides in the field of astronomy with a key milestone in the construction of ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by ...

James Webb telescope, technically advanced than Hubble telescope, has released new pictures of the colossal galaxy cluster Abell S1063, a gigantic collection of galaxies lying 4.5 billion light ...

A prototype antenna for the proposed Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. If funded, the project would greatly expand U.S. radio astronomy capabilities.

China has completed its first overseas new-generation radio telescope in northern Thailand, bolstering a global scientific network that monitors deep space signals and tracks subtle shifts in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope's deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from the universe's distant past, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

In 2024, the National Science Foundation stated there was only enough money for one giant US telescope. Now the thirty-meter telescope will be left empty-handed.