Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has proven its worth year after year. 2024 is no exception. Here are just five times the ultrapowerful telescope has ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the ... that formed in the first 700 million years of cosmic history.

Unprecedented power output: 700 times as efficient as the hydrogen engines. The power delivery of the nitrogen engine is striking and is a work of engineering genius. Hydrogen engines are eclipsed, ...

Day 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the most distant known galaxy. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found a record-breaking distant galaxy observed just 290 ...

The latest projection shows the state will face a nearly $700 million shortfall. That’s a slight improvement over an earlier forecast which estimated the shortfall would be nearly $1 billion. Colorado ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

consists of two telescopes made up of glass baubles arranged on vertical cables. Each strand dangles in the water like a pearl necklace that’s up to 700 meters long. Each bauble, a pressure ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...