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On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how the dark matter is distributed.
Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...
Satellite data allows meteorologists to keep track of the location, structure and intensity of severe weather, helping to keep people safe. Now they're losing access to these satellites.
The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...
The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.
Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, ...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the galaxy – a technique that could be useful for interstellar missions ...
New near-infrared observations by the James Webb Space Telescope highlight a tightly packed group of stars at the peculiar galaxy's center as well as dust on its outer fringes.
Located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, the world's most powerful digital camera is set to transform how we see the universe.
The world's largest digital camera focuses on the Virgo Cluster, showing never-before-seen detail in our universe ...
Cerro Pachón, CHILE—The Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Monday released its first dazzling images of deep space in a preview of the cosmic movie the pioneering probe was built to create. The U.S ...