Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

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 ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

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

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An artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant known galaxy. ESO/M. Kornmesser. The discovery marks the furthest detection of oxygen ever made—and challenges what scientists ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, an observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, researchers discovered a galaxy that appears to be as orderly as contemporary galaxies.

The Central Molecular Zone, spanning 700 light-years across the heart of the galaxy, contains a majority of the dense gas in the Milky Way. While analyzing this region with the Atacama Large ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.