A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...

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

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

All of the healthcare professions are crying out for regulatory reform, says Kevin Lewis – when will it be dentistry's turn?

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and ...

NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of the active galactic center in spiral galaxy UGC 11397, located in the ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...