When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

In a landmark moment for modern astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first-ever test images, and they’re ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

The largest map of the universe ever created is now freely available for anyone to explore, so what are you waiting for?

The James Webb Space Telescope has acquired enough data for scientists to publish the largest map of the universe ever created, spanning almost all of time.

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching ...

In 2024, DESI researchers used the data in DR1 to create the largest 3D map of our universe to date and make world-leading measurements of dark energy.

DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date and uses it to study dark energy. Earth is at the center in this animation, and every dot is a galaxy.