NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is gearing up to illuminate the universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

For their investigation, the researchers used data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, as well as from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo discovered the latest comet to grace our sky. But he fears his tenth comet could be his ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our noses all this time. Models of how the universe has evolved since the Big ...

Skywatchers throughout the Northern Hemisphere are enjoying views of the newly discovered Comet SWAN.

When cosmologists used different ways to measure the value of sigma 8, a number that denotes how clumpy the universe is, they ...

Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.

The sky map which SWAN produces also highlights ... Similarly, the soon-to-be-completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is a threat to the comet hunters using SWAN. "It's going to be an amazing ...

The TMT is projected to cost $1.4 billion, and the other observatories being built in this wave (all three in Chile) come with ... creating three-dimensional maps of a large portion of the ...