The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

T he Gemini North Telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, studies the skies above Maunakea, a mountain ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

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

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

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 ...

New images suggest the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is on track to become astronomy’s most ambitious and productive eye on the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

In this photo, staff at La Silla work to clean the 11.8-foot telescope's primary mirror. As the mirror was made with fused silica, it takes a delicate process to restore it to a clean ...