But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they form. Called supermassive black holes, they have been found at the center of ...

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

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.

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 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

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 ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.