Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Quantum gravity is the missing link between general relativity and quantum mechanics, the yet-to-be-discovered key to a ...

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

The Simons Observatory (SO) has completed the installation of its Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) near the summit of Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

Our current best theories of the universe suggest that dark energy is making it expand faster and faster, but new ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy – the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans – ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

With the first large dataset from the Euclid space telescope, researchers discover 26 million galaxies and the detailed ...

The research, by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, shows both the intensity and polarization of the ...