SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

The image of WOH G64 was captured using the GRAVITY instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), operated by the European Southern Observatory. This advanced system combines light from four ...

Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.

University of Arizona astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The ...

Astronomers have found an unexpectedly bright and chemically complex galaxy from the first 300 million years of the ...

It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade-long archive of observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... managed to uncover the so-called extragalactic fast X-ray transient ...

Astrowatch.net: You've been awarded for the creation of the most sensitive X-ray surveys of the extragalactic universe. How much challenging was this research? Brandt: This research is very ...