The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

Researchers used the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to identify the presence of ultraviolet ...

A full moon at its closest point to Earth: December opens this week with a full moon, dubbed the “Cold Moon,” that also ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

If the moon looks a bit bigger, it’s not your imagination. The last supermoon of the year is making its appearance on ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

As the night grows long and the winter solstice approaches, there’s a host of astronomical events to watch out for, including ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...