"The Milky Way seemed like a million of stars, it was beautiful, it was incredible," the 22-year-old recalled of her summer 2023 trip to the national park, which is also a certified International Dark ...

Scientists using DESI discovered thousands of hidden black holes in dwarf galaxies, changing our understanding of space.

“Despite the fact that it’s been around for 60 years, you could argue that in many ways, the Golden Age of Discovery for some ...

Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

Either way, we need to know more, which is why a lot rests on the shoulders of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), based at the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National ...

Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, in Arizona. Is there a meteor shower tonight? The Geminids, the northern hemisphere’s ...

Whistling and moaning, a 50-mile-an-hour (80-kilometer-an-hour) wind whipped among the telescope domes atop Kitt Peak. Just a few feet below, turning gray in the dusk, slid a river of clouds that ...