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

San Francisco night owls got a special treat on Tuesday as the fog and cloud cover cleared out just enough that a rare " ...

A Times reporter and a photojournalist traveled above the Arctic Circle to retrace the footsteps of scientists who studied auroras over a century ago.

Not only with Griffith Observatory's live online presentation provide a thrilling peek at this ancient astronomical occurrence, but the observatory has provided a helpful graphic, too, depicting the ...

All of Australia will be treated to a "blood moon" tonight wherever the sky is clear. Here's how you can catch a glimpse of ...

Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 cosmic changes in one night, launching its 10-year mission to create a real-time movie of ...

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory now automatically sends out alerts when something changes in the night sky. In the first night, there were 800,000.

“At the moment: Ongoing lava-collapse pyroclastic density current (PDC) at Mayon Volcano in Albay. Alert Level 3 prevails ...

Voluminous ash emission was observed at Kanlaon Volcano on Friday morning, Feb. 27, as volcanic activity continued following recent eruptive ...

Sunspot AR3038 is massive and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has had its eye on it. Watch a time-lapse of it growing to ...

This week, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issued its first real-time sky alerts, inaugurating a monitoring system set to transform how we study the universe.

Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin ...