The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

Astronomers Discover 'Cosmic Fossil' Galaxy That Remained 'Frozen in Time' for Billions of Years in Space Fossils are a great ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...

A prototype antenna for the proposed Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. If funded, the project would greatly expand U.S. radio astronomy capabilities.