A erupted with M1 and M6 class solar flares. Watch the fireworks in these views from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

Tour the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's views of the Virgo cluster, Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA | edited by Space.com ...

Scientists have detected the brightest flare ever recorded from a supermassive black hole, a cosmic explosion that burned with the ...

The new Planetarium in the recently opened LEED Gold-certified Mathematics + Science Building on the Main Campus features a 9 ...

A powerful new observatory has unveiled its first images to the public, showing off what it can do as it gets ready to start its main mission: making a vivid time-lapse video of the night sky that ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled its first images, leaving astronomers in awe of the unprecedented capabilities of the observatory’s 3,200-megapixel digital camera — the largest in ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

Mount St. Helens’ Johnston Ridge Observatory will remain closed to the public until at least 2026, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said Monday. A landslide last year damaged the only road to the ...