The Rubin Observatory, which can take images with a field of view of the sky that are the equivalent of 40 moons, discovered ...

A sweat-drenched crowd at a Wallace Wade Stadium watch party gathered to see the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

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

Scientists unveiled the first images from what they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built," and ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

The goal is to spectrally map approximately 2500 square degrees of the Galactic plane with 37 '' spatial resolution and R similar to 4000 spectral resolution over the wavelength range 360-980 nm. LVM ...

By bridging refined measurements with new theoretical work, astronomers plan to see if other dwarf galaxies share a similar fate. They suspect that a better grasp of these multi-directional pulls can ...

Many large galaxies have satellite galaxies that revolve around them like smaller relatives on a cosmic dance floor. These satellites can show researchers how gargantuan hosts formed and changed over ...

Group 15, a nearby group viewed 1.5 billion light-years away, shows the mature form of galaxy associations in the present-day universe—observed as they were 12.3 billion years into cosmic time.

The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view.

NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies By: Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press Posted: 10:14 PM CDT Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2025 Last Modified: 9:24 AM ...