The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the universe in ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

who likened it to a scene from "Interstellar," a movie in which Kansas residents must quickly abandon a baseball game. The dust storm was the result of several weather developments, including ...

It was an interstellar interloper, a visitor launched into the cosmos from deep within another star system. If confirmed, the meteor will be only the second such object ever spotted by humans.

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM)—the vast ocean of gas and charged particles that ...