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

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s ...

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Congressional Republicans are laying the groundwork for a tax cliff at the end of President Trump’s term in office. While the ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based ...