The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images will be unveiled on Monday (June 23), and you can watch the action live.

Pulsating stars. Supernova explosions. Streaking asteroids. Far-off galaxies. Humankind recently saw the first stunning images of outer space taken by the world’s largest digital camera – and Florida ...

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...

For millennia, the act of gazing at the night sky has connected us not only to the stars but also to one another. This simple, shared experience ignites our curiosity, inspiring philosophical and ...

From nearby galaxies to distant stars, this image marks the start of a new era in wide-field spectroscopic exploration. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...