Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

The Bezos-backed MethaneSAT satellite has been declared "likely not recoverable" after losing contact with controllers just ...

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

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Astronomers have uncovered a remarkable cosmic relic - a galaxy named KiDS J0842+0059, located three billion light-years from ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.