A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and ...

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

NASA’s James Webb telescope captured its first direct image of a distant gas giant, revealing groundbreaking insights into ...

To understand gravitational lensing and dark matter, James Jee, a professor at Yonsei University, says to think of a pond ...

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