The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky.

Wake up, astronomers—the universe is calling. The astronomical observatory equipped with world’s largest camera hit a key ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

The first batch of alerts from the Vera Rubin Observatory drew attention to new asteroids, supernovae, and active galactic nuclei.

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

High up in the Pinaleño Mountains, the stars of the vast Milky Way come trickling in through the lens of a solitary telescope fortress as researchers seek answers to that gnawing question: What else ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation says it will demolish the Sacramento Peak Observatory, also known as Sunspot Solar Observatory ...

Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know about the cosmos were discovered in the early 20th century at Mt. Wilson Observatory. It was ...