When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries and shows how massive stars shape galaxies.

From distant supernova remnants, to colorful mosaics of giant galaxies and nebulae, check out these 7 alluring deep universe ...

Illustration of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy pulling toward each other. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, DSS, Till Sawala (University of Helsinki); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) The ...

Most of the time, astronomers use high-tech telescopes and expensive equipment to make observations. This time, they just had ...

“We could have detected this galaxy even if it were 10 times fainter, which means that we could see other examples yet ...

MISTRAL is a new-generation receiver for observations at millimeter wavelengths, built as part of the recent project to upgrade the Sardinia Radio Telescope for the study of the high-frequency radio ...

MISTRAL is a new generation receiver installed on the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) and built by the Sapienza University of Rome for the National ...

NASA has released many clear images of different regions in the universe taken by the world's largest telescope, James Webb.