The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks like a home satellite dish on steroids. When the antennas are pointed ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

NASA has unveiled a dazzling new collection of cosmic images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing spectacular stars ...

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to its growing list.

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...

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

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of the universe. If a ninth planet exists in our solar system, scientists say ...

Standing more than 164 feet (50 meters) tall, the tube-like altitude structure will connect the 128-foot (39-meter) primary mirror, M1 — the largest telescope mirror ever made — to the 14-foot ...