By imagining Earth at the center of a celestial sphere, ... oldest evidence for stellar coordinates from Hipparchus was an 8th-century A.D. Latin translation of a poem about the constellations ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient secrets buried deep beneath the surface of the moon, thanks to China’s Chang’e-4 mission.

This deep view of the Orion Constellation glows in reddish hues thanks to a filtered view of hydrogen alpha emission, a type ...

Serpens the Serpent is unique among the constellations because it’s separated into two parts with Ophiuchus the Serpent-bearer between them. Serpens Caput (the head of the serpent) lies to the west of ...

Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster.

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

A sneak preview of the first batch of deep space imagery from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile made its way to news sites and social media on Monday, followed by a livestream event. In a ...

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on ...

Gaze at the night sky enough, and you’ll begin to find all kinds of geometric patterns among the stars. Points are easy; so are lines connecting two ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.