Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a curious new object started flashing across the message boards.

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to ...

A11pI3Z is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered, and astronomers can’t say yet whether it is a comet or a ...

Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory has made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting 2,100 new asteroids in just 10 hours. With ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

Recapping some of the most talked-about news this week from the nation and around the world – in case you missed it.

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...