In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory has released the first images captured by its powerful new telescope. Designed to survey the entire night sky in unprecedented detail, the instrument marks a major step ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

(CNN) — A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity. The ...

Excited scientists on Monday unveiled the first images from a new observatory in Chile they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built.” Starting later this year, the Vera C.

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into one dazzling mosaic. Half a year after first opening its eyes to the cosmos ...

The telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation and operated by the National Solar Observatory, was built to push solar imaging to its limits. This is one of the first times it has done so ...

More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.

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