On June 23, the first images from the much-anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón will be shown to ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a ...

Universe's 'missing' matter found! "People are going to be amazed at what we're able to see already." ...

The Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is similar in size, mass, and shape to our own spiral Milky Way. ESO researcher Enrico Congiu said ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

A large, rotating protoplanetary disk of dust and gas surrounds the young star, which is 431 light-years away from us.

Located 1.1 million light years from Earth, the vast Sculptor Galaxy contains around 500 nebulae, or star-forming regions ...

Galaxies are incredibly complex systems that we are still struggling to understand,” observed Enrico Congiu of the European ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

This week, astronomers have unveiled the most intricate and vibrant image ever captured of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) in a ...

The entire Sculptor Galaxy is displayed in thousands of colors observed by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.

Scientists have discovered that something is making cosmic distance markers appear much farther away than they should be.