NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...

University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy last week officially began the decommissioning process for the UH-owned UKIRT ...

SpaceX early Saturday launched another 27 Starlink satellites, breaking it's own record by preparing the launchpad for ...

Following an emotional day of testimony, the Board of Land and Natural Resources voted to reject the Army’s Environmental Impact Statement covering approximately 6,300 acres of land in Kahuku, Mākua ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), ...

The supermassive black hole only reveals itself once every tens of thousands of years. It has gone rogue and is on a killing ...

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Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

SpaceX’s next mission as part of its Transporter small payload rideshare program, Transporter 14, launched from Space Launch ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Astronomy enters a new era as Rubin Observatory’s nonstop imaging and AI tools let scientists study the universe from ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...