As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right ...

The Solar System might not be as quiet and orderly as we think. Imagine one day looking up and seeing something strange in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile houses the world's most powerful survey telescope with the largest digital camera ever ...

At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a digital camera that will create an unparalleled map of the cosmos.

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.