The connection between the society's centennial and the number of telescopes that will be erected on the Griffith Observatory ...

On its 36th anniversary, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Trifid Nebula, providing new insights on a familiar ...

Buried within the Antarctic ice are more than 5,000 light sensors that work together to detect some of the highest energy ...

To celebrate its 36th anniversary, scientists turned the observatory back toward a target it first imaged in 1997: the Trifid ...

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a ...

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million ...

The most precise measurement yet shows the Universe is expanding faster than expected, deepening the Hubble tension. The ...

High in the mountains of Chile, a new telescope equipped with the world’s largest digital camera will collect more astronomical data in a single year than all others combined, and promises to ...

Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward ...

Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows crimson as newborn stars ignite clouds of gas and dust.

A recent report highlighted by the Associated Press reveals a rising risk to the Atacama Desert’s pristine night skies, a ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...