The upcoming launch of the fittingly named Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile is set to transform the way we search for life beyond Earth. With its immense power, the ELT could offer a faster ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered by a Chile-based telescope from the Atlas network in late December. The European Space Agency (ESA) said it has an almost 99% chance of safely passing ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

After a six-week ocean voyage, a week spent waiting to offload, and another week trekking through the mountains, the first major component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived ...

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...