"Hubble has given us a front row seat to the chaotic processes that are shaping disks as they build new planets — processes ...

Decentralized physical infrastructure connects independently operated telescopes into a coordinated observing network ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

The largest planet-forming disk ever observed, nicknamed Dracula’s Chivito after a Uruguayan sandwich, has been revealed to be exceptionally chaotic. This turbulence may have propelled whisps of ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

Scientists atop Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai’i and across the Hawaiian chain are turning their telescopes skyward Friday ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan’s Subaru Telescope, which sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

In late June 2025, a rare weather event disrupted operations in one of the most arid regions on Earth. A snowstorm swept ...