A new image of the center of the distinctive galaxy Centaurus A shows how a new telescope allows astronomers to see with unprecedented quality through the opaque dust lanes that obscure the galaxy's center.

NEWTON, N.C., Oct.

Astronomers have opened up its doors to a new ground-base telescope that will help give scientists a peak at the places that have never been explored.

Enceladus is the only moon in our solar system known to influence substantially the chemical composition of its parent planet.

The ultimate in high altitude, high-tech catering has arrived in Chile to serve chilled "provisions" to the telescopes at the largest astronomical complex in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).