Major telescope hosts world’s largest digital camera: how it will transform astronomy Massive telescope will map the Universe and provide an evolving record of the Solar System and distant stars.

Thanks to the ingenuity of Arizona farmers and scientists using environmentally-friendly methods, U.S.-grown cotton is free of its major non-native pest, the pink bollworm. The victory in the more ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of tiny, distant galaxies piercing the fog of the cosmic dark age in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has never been found in any planetary atmosphere to date.

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial features in stunning color and resolution. By combining over 50 hours ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists found a dusty disk surrounding the dying white dwarf creating the famous Ring Nebula.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile houses the world's most powerful survey telescope with the largest digital camera ever built by humans, and it is about to drop its first pictures. The US ...

This image shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Regions of pink light are spread throughout this ...

A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study how out-of-the-box research changes the scientific landscape.