High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Vera Rubin Observatory unveiled first images: millions of galaxies captured in just 10 hours of observation.

Tributes have been paid to a "towering figure in British astronomy" who has died aged 102. Sir Francis Graham-Smith was ...

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A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig in northern Poland. This rare find, made near the remains of a ...

The first pictures released show 10 million galaxies. It's a small start, just 0.05 percent of the overall mission to map out ...