A nearby black hole as a window into the early universe

An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn has studied a ...

NASA Celebrates July 4th With a Stunning Hubble Cosmic Sparkler From the Dawn of Time

A dazzling new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resembles a red, white, and blue sparkler lighting up the night sky.

A backyard astronomer’s guide to summer 2026 in the Bay Area

Here’s how to see the year’s most-intense meteor shower, a blood-red lunar eclipse and Saturn’s refreshed rings this summer.

Planet found orbiting a dead star could preview what will happen to our solar system

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

Humanity’s Biggest-Ever Camera Begins 10-Year Time-Lapse Of The Cosmos

The Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun a 10-year sky survey, using the world’s largest digital camera to find asteroids, ...

It’s one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What are these little red dots?

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

LSST begins full operations with key contributions from Japanese researchers and engineers

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of ...
Tech Times

Rubin Observatory Begins LSST: Nightly 7-Million-Alert Stream Will Test If Dark Energy Evolves

Rubin Observatory LSST launched June 30, 2026, unleashing a nightly 7-million-alert sky survey powered by SLAC’s 60-second ...
Smithsonian Magazine

America’s First Space Station Proved Humans Could Live and Work in Orbit for Months. Now, the Public Can See What It Looked Like in Person for the First Time i…

A backup version of Skylab was displayed when the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened 50 years ago. After ...
The Times of Israel

Polarizing Israeli-born Harvard astronomer picked to lead White House UFO council

Avi Loeb vows to brief public and create website to share findings of team tasked with investigating origins of mysterious ...

Bay Area-built camera begins filming the universe like never before

The project is expected to enable pioneering discoveries by scientists around the world, and ultimately deliver a time-lapse ...

A Dazzling Census of Our Cosmos Begins

The team behind the observatory, a joint effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, unveiled several images of the cosmos that were jampacked with celestial ...