All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted the highest-resolution ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which holds the largest digital camera in the world, is ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s CCOR captured solar CME images, while the LASCO telescope observed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

The biggest new telescopes are being built in the mountains of Chile. They could change our understanding of the universe.

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have peeked over the Milky Way's back fence and found that there's ...

"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, ...

NRL's Compact Coronagraph on NOAA's GOES-19 spacecraft has started capturing crucial images of the Sun's atmosphere and solar ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.

With the help of advanced imaging cameras and software, astronomers are finally able to track even smaller incoming impactors ...