The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

South Africa's large radio telescope MeerKAT consists of 64 satellite dishes, each 13.5 meters in diameter, distributed over an area of up to 8 km in the Karoo region.

A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

A communications satellite out of commission since 1965 is chirping at the Earth in radio frequencies. What is happening? We ...

When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and ...