Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...

Astronomers love data, but no one has that kind of time in a day. So each individual scientist (amateurs can sign up, too) must first enroll with the Rubin Observatory’s so-called alert brokers.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

Pope Leo XIV has marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some supernovae work.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Over the next few days, astronomers will pull together evidence to determine whether the object is a comet.