The 2026 budget request states that NSF will operate only one of the two LIGO sites, drastically reducing its cosmic ...

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

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 ...

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

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

We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep,” remarked Anais Möller, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...

"This was the first star we've seen that is right in the middle of its 'teenage' phase." Astronomers have discovered the ...

The International Astronomical Centre announced that the Al Khatim Astronomical Observatory, located in the Abu Dhabi desert, ...

Mercury hits 35 degrees Celsius in Tsim Sha Tsui, marking hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures a couple of ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...