Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

On a remote Chilean mountaintop, inside a domed observatory named after astronomer Vera Rubin, a camera unlike any the world ...

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

While Bianco will be present in Washington for the historic first-look event, UD is hosting a watch party in Room 101 of ...

Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio ...

Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware ...

China’s Tianwen-2 launched May 29 to collect asteroid samples and study a distant comet, marking a major step in the nation’s ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

The pope spoke to students gathered as part of a monthlong astronomy and astrophysics summer school program hosted by the Vatican Observatory.