A glittering diagonal group of glowing yellow galaxies shine out of the image filled with glowing points of light.

DECam’s Deep View of Abell 3667 Illuminates the Past of a Galaxy Cluster and the Future of Astronomical Imaging

An actively merging galaxy cluster is featured in this image assembled from a total of 28 hours of observations with ...
Betelgeuse and Its Stellar Companion in Orion

Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse

Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National Science ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS Seen With Gemini North

Gemini North Observes Comet 3I/ATLAS

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
Gemini North and Gemini South Capture the Fading Light of SN 2025kg. Three panel image shows how the light faded with time.

International Gemini Observatory and SOAR Discover Surprising Link Between Fast X-ray Transients and the Explosive Death of Massive Stars

Using a combination of telescopes, including the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...
Many stars and galaxies including two spiral galaxies and three merging galaxies.

Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look unveiling event save-the-date poster.

Mark Your Calendars! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Unveil First Look Images on 23 June 2025

We invite you to attend the live stream of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Look event, taking place on ...
An overall red glittery image with a dark back crack running diagonally through it.

Circinus West: A Dark Nebula Harboring a Nest of Newly Formed Stars

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated ...
The image is split into 2 parts. On the right is a fuzzy orange galaxy on a black background on the left is a start filed shoeing where the galaxy is on the sky.

NSF NOIRLab Astronomer Discovers Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy in the Universe

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to date ...
black background with multicolor streaks . One very bright streak is top right.

Gemini South Observes Shape and Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4

Using observations from the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the ...
To blue and black speckled fans originate from the top and bottom of this image and meet in the middle.

Tantalizing Hints That Dark Energy is Evolving — New Results and Data Released by the DESI Project

The DESI collaboration has published a new analysis of dark energy using their first three years of collected data, which ...
Artist’s Illustration of a Sun from the viewpoint of a red planet.

Planetary System Found Around Nearest Single Star

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National ...
Artist’s illustration of dwarf galaxy with active galactic nucleus

DESI Uncovers 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and ...