The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time to investigate mysteries like the ...

Breathtaking celestial photographs, most recently from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capture a beauty beyond terrestrial ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is seen against the band of the Milky Way. In the coming years, it will map the entire southern hemisphere sky in high resolution through 6 wavelength bands.

Artificial intelligence helps astronomers observe what may be the first known case of a star exploding while interacting with ...

NASA has shown us the first portrait of the ‘’baby universe’’. Exactly, we have a picture of the universe when it was just ...

The rate of human-produced light is increasing in the night sky by as much as 10% per year, making it difficult for ...

A Chilean observatory has unveiled the largest telescope in the world, equipped with a simply massive camera and capable to ...

On one side are astronomers who use ground-based observatories to gather starlight from the depths of the universe. On the ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

For thousands of years, humanity viewed the skies as unchanging, except for a few "wandering stars" (that we now know are planets). As we improved our ability to perceive the cosmos with ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...