In October 2022, scientists detected the explosive death of a star 2.4 billion light-years away that was brighter than any ...

Could time itself actually explain our universe's expansion? Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

By looking at light from distant exploding stars called supernovas, in 1998 astronomers discovered the universe isn't just ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

New observations from the National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NSF NRAO) Karl G. Jansky Very ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

The array is located less than 10 km southeast of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. © CTAO The European Commission today established the ...