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

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.

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does ...

Science fiction authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein have inspired figures such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who, ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

Often referred to as field scopes or digiscopes, they bridge the gap between a monocular and a telescope, offering impressive magnifications while remaining compact and portable. The standout ...

New measurements from the Webb telescope – Nasa’s most powerful space observatory – could help explain one of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, according to the researchers behind them.

Two years of data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the Hubble Space Telescope's earlier finding that the rate of the universe's expansion is faster - by about 8% - than ...

HONOLULU Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii s tallest mountain will ...

Webb Telescope Confirms the Universe Is Expanding at an Unexpected Rate By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more ...

The properties of the first stars, galaxies and black holes responsible for reionization are still unknown, because these objects are too far away and too dim for our present telescopes to see ...

This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole." The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the ...