A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

These telescopes represent the cutting edge of astronomical discovery, probing the universe across the electromagnetic ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

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

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Astronomers have begun analysing the first cosmic images from Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses the world’s ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.