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.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, ...

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 used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the building blocks of galaxies during their formative years. The CRISTAL ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...