Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend over California when the Milky Way appears in the night ...

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

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

The legacy of astronomer Vera C. Rubin, for whom the observatory was named, was not just the way her work revolutionized ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...