Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

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

NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of the active galactic center in spiral galaxy UGC 11397, located in the ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and thick dust lanes forming its spiral structure. Viewed nearly edge-on from Earth ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

To commemorate its achievements, MSFC will host a free public celebration on Saturday, July 19, at The Orion Amphitheater.

Astronomers have uncovered a remarkable cosmic relic - a galaxy named KiDS J0842+0059, located three billion light-years from ...