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

The observatory, funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science, released its ...

The Rubin Observatory sits on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, with the digital camera scanning the sky to create an ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored ...

Text and photos by Michael J. Meyer Anyone who has visited Ocracoke Island knows how special it is: from stunning sunsets to magnificent views of the Milky Way on a moonless night after a cold ...

20.06.25 19:06 Summer rainbow in the lens of BelTA’s photographers In Pictures. 20.06.25 18:51 Expert: ... Strawberry Moon illuminates night sky over Belarus ...

The roar of the Thunderbirds filled the sky Saturday over Beale Air Force Base, long known for the more clandestine surveillance and recon missions of the U.S. Air Force. The Air & Space Expo is ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has captured. It is a ...

Well, tell that to the red dwarf star TOI-6894, which is located 238 light-years away. It has just 20% of the mass of the sun, but has been found to host a giant planet, TOI-6894b, that's a little ...

The NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope has captured ultra-fine magnetic striations, or “magnetic curtains,” on the sun’s surface, revealing structures just 20 kilometers wide.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...