In the bone-dry heights of Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists have just flipped the switch on a machine that could rewrite the story of the universe. Perched atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is the ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

After years of preparation, U.K. astronomers are celebrating a major milestone as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals its first dazzling images of the night sky. This marks the beginning of the most ...