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

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

Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with ...

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

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...

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 new brown dwarfs are the least massive known brown dwarfs. They place a new constraint on the lowest mass at which brown ...

On 23 June, a new chapter in astronomy begins as the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveils its first images of the universe. Register now to join the watch party at Sonnenborgh in Utrecht ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ...

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

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