The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

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

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

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

January's full Wolf Moon will make Mars disappear, but it's only temporary. Watch for the red planet's vanishing act from the ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...