Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that revolutionize astronomy.

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.