Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly by our planet at a safe distance of 1.8 astronomical units (roughly 167 million miles or ...

We got our first look at images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will forever change how we monitor the night sky.

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on the Big Island’s Mauna Kea discovered a massive planet and a ...

Scientists atop Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai’i and across the Hawaiian chain are turning their telescopes skyward Friday ...

While these free events do indeed happen each month, the gathering that's set to sparkle Dec. 20 feels a bit special: It's ...

Decentralized physical infrastructure connects independently operated telescopes into a coordinated observing network ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar comet after 2017's 1I/'Oumuamua and 2019's 2I/Borisov. It was discovered on ...

NASA’s IXPE identifies the source of X-rays in the black hole jet of galaxy 3C 84, confirming inverse Compton scattering and ...

A new chapter in astronomy education has begun at Kitt Peak National Observatory with the grand opening of the Windows on the ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...