Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the building blocks of galaxies during their formative years. The CRISTAL ...

First on the calendar is the Thunder Moon, otherwise known as the Buck Moon, which will light up the night on July 10, ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

July will kick off with colorful flashes of light during Independence Day celebrations across the United States, but the ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

Researchers led by the University of Southern California have produced a set of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky ...

Scientists have created digital “twins” of our Milky Way galaxy to investigate one of the biggest puzzles in the universe: dark matter. This invisible substance makes up about 85% of all ...

They called their simulation project "COZMIC," short for "Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Initial Conditions beyond Cold Dark Matter." Scientists have known for decades ... This interaction ...

There is only a roughly 50 percent chance the Milky Way and Andromeda will smash into each other in the next 10 billion years, the international team of astrophysicists determined. “It’s basically a ...