Thanks to a $367,088 grant funded by the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation Program, Appalachian State University’s Dark Sky Observatory is receiving major upgrades to its la ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of stars and millions of distant galaxies.

Researchers from China confirmed the discovery of this ancient star mentioned in the Ming dynasty’s star chart, narrowing ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Scientists unveiled the first images from what they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built," and ...

Scientists spotted the behaviour in drone footage of orcas in the Salish Sea, in the inland waters of the US state of Washington.