The Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has been used to capture an amazing view ...

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

The annual Badlands Astronomy Festival brings together space science professionals, amateur astronomers, educators, and ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

These clouds look dark and shadowy in space but are full of the raw materials ... In the center of the image is a bright spot called Cederblad 111. This is a reflection nebula, which means it doesn’t ...

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...