When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

Right now the comet lingers 16 ½ astronomical units from the Sun, out past Neptune, yet it’s moving a brisk 22,000 mph on a course that will carry it no closer than Saturn in 2031. Hubble’s wide-field ...

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

Photos from the Chicago Cubs’ 9-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners on June 20, 2025, at Wrigley Field.

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...