We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep,” remarked Anais Möller, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...

Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with ...

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

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...

Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with powerful new instruments ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

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

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Light streaks caused by passing satellites mar images taken by the world's most expensive telescopes. The problem is set to ...