Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

John Peterson, Purdue University (THE CONVERSATION) Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect ...

The first images from the brand new Vera C. Rubin Observatory have finally been unveiled, and they show us the cosmos like never before. The camera captures so much detail that its first complete ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

With an 8.4-meter (27.6-foot) primary mirror, the telescope will take 30-second exposures that capture an area about 45 times the size of the full moon.

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

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The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.