More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), local spin-off company Spaceoptix, ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

There could be life out there—way, way out there. Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had discovered “compelling evidence” of a planet that is potentially habitable. The ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...