The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an ...

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), mounted on ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal, Chile, achieved first light on 18 October 2025, marking the transition from construction to ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, ...

First images of light from objects in the Universe are now recorded and split into thousands of colour components 4MOST will investigate the formation and evolution processes of stars and planets, the ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, ...