Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

Astronomers combined Hubble's small-scale details of stellar death with Euclid's wide view of cosmic environments to take a ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 changes in the sky during just a single observation session.

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

For 20 years, NASA’s ALaMO Observatory has tracked meteors and lunar impacts, providing continuous data on space hazards and ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

The discovery of liquid mercury inside an observatory known for its many scientific discoveries has forced its permanent shutdown. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced in a news release ...

The TMT project is back under consideration for federal support, but it must complete a final design phase without taxpayer assistance.

When Ukrainian forces retook the site of the Braude Radio Astronomy Observatory in September 2022 after forcing a Russian ...

Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: On the campus ...