The game-changing Vera Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

On 23 June, a new chapter in astronomy begins as the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveils its first images of the universe. Register now to join the watch party at Sonnenborgh in Utrecht ...

Astronomers have discovered a new class of bright, long-lasting cosmic explosions that offer a new probe into studying the ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ...

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...

"The new brown dwarfs are the least massive known brown dwarfs. They place a new constraint on the lowest mass at which brown ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.