Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

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

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

Vera Rubin Observatory unveiled first images: millions of galaxies captured in just 10 hours of observation.

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

Starlink satellites orbit approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth and put on a spectacular show for observers as ...

Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian West Bank town on Wednesday (June 25), sparking a confrontation that ended with Israeli forces killing three Palestinians, the Israeli military and ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...