The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

Starting at a welcome table at the base of the dune, visitors will stroll through a lantern-lit one-mile trail up to the dune ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

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 ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different ...

Neptune and Saturn are two Moon-widths apart all month, while the morning sky hosts Venus and Uranus together in Taurus.

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

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

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...