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

The world's largest digital camera and most powerful telescope released the first images it has captured in the best images ...

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

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...

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

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

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

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 debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

World’s most powerful telescope unveiled on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...