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.

The comet was identified as interstellar due to its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, which is unlike the elliptical orbits ...

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.

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

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

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

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

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...

Hints of the very first stars to light the Universe might be discovered in a faint radio signal feebly beaming from the dawn ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...