Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

Hubble launched to space on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Since then, the space telescope has captured ...

While we have been able to directly detect gravitational waves since 2016, gravitational wave astronomy is still ... indirect evidence of the cosmic background of gravitational waves.