World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

Physicist Jeremy Sakstein has received one of the world’s top science awards for his theoretical work that is reshaping our ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

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 ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

Women, especially women of color, remain underrepresented in STEM careers. Marvel's new series "Ironheart" is highlighting the importance of representation, and Chicago is part of that inspiration.