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

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

Carl Lipo receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The ...

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory maps the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, enabling 3D galaxy distribution studies, cosmic ...

The suspect in Saturday's Brown University shooting was discovered dead at a storage facility in New Hampshire. The same man ...

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

Using the combined might of spacecraft scattered across the Solar System, scientists have built the most detailed map yet of ...

Somehow we blinked and the so called big sales period has come and gone, yet the bargain bins refuse to take the hint.