The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

A sweat-drenched crowd at a Wallace Wade Stadium watch party gathered to see the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...

A faint radio glow reveals a million-light-year halo enveloping one of the earliest galaxy clusters, hinting that energetic ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...