After 15 years of observing cosmic microwaves, which have shorter wavelengths than radio waves, the Atacama Cosmology ...

Editor’s Note (6/23/25): This story has been updated with additional imagery and details. Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new ...

For over a century, astronomers have theorized about the universe’s first stars—massive, luminous objects forged from the ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission’s first public data release. The yellow patch on the right side of the image is the emission nebula RCW 36, a ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

Check out some of the new images NASA missions have captured of comet 3I/ATLAS as it makes its way across the Solar System.

In April 1990, a tin can the size of a school bus was dropped off 353 miles above the Earth’s surface. Its mission: Take clear pictures of the universe without interference from the planet’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope cost taxpayers $10 billion. For that considerable sum, we’ve recently been treated to some spectacular photos of the cosmos. Judging by the comments of my friends, the ...

The race to uncover the secrets of the Universe is on: NASA's most recent astrophysics space telescope has begun returning data, and unlike what's happening with other telescope projects, absolutely ...

NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS, the third comet ever to be discovered in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from ...