On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, ...

NASA’s telescope captured 7 amazing spiral galaxy photos. These galaxies have bright stars, swirling arms, and glowing gas.

The university’s critical contribution allows the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to fulfill its mission as a high-tech research tool that is revolutionizing how we explore worlds beyond our own.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how the dark matter is distributed.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

NASA astronomers say they have captured "cosmic razzle-dazzle" in a jaw-dropping new gallery of space images. The ...

New near-infrared observations by the James Webb Space Telescope highlight a tightly packed group of stars at the peculiar galaxy's center as well as dust on its outer fringes.

The world's largest digital camera focuses on the Virgo Cluster, showing never-before-seen detail in our universe ...

Satellite data allows meteorologists to keep track of the location, structure and intensity of severe weather, helping to ...

Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...

"Starlink is the most immediate and frequent source of potential interference for radio astronomy: it launched 477 satellites ...