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

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

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

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Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO-VLT) has captured clear images of 3I/ATLAS, a fast-moving interstellar comet that the Sun's gravity can't slow down.

"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.

Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...