Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), a six-telescope interferometer, excels at ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming 'pebbles' around two young ...

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory ...