The Rubin Observatory issues rapid alerts for changing celestial objects, enabling global scientists to detect supernovae, asteroids, and variable stars within minutes of observation.

Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful new Earth-based observatory's data.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals new infrared images of the brain-shaped PMR 1 "Exposed Cranium" nebula, the final ...

Here in southern New England, the land of four distinct seasons, spring is on our doorstep. This month's vernal equinox, the moment the sun crosses the equator from south to north, comes at 10:46 a.m.

New studies reveal how metallicity and stellar evolution determine whether massive stars expand into red supergiants prior to Type II supernova explosions.

A Pasadena High School student, Matteo Paz, has astounded scientists by developing an AI pipeline to analyze NASA's vast NEOWISE data. His work, uncovering over 1.5 million variable celestial objects, ...

A research team has merged incomplete astronomical catalogs and collected the positions of 80 million galaxies in a new database.

NASA's DART mission altered the orbits of both Didymos and Dimorphos around the Sun, validating kinetic impact as a viable ...

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

Systematic human inspection of the millions of source cutouts in the Hubble Legacy Archive is impossible – but artificial ...