The retaliatory strikes came on Saturday, a day after Israel killed top Iranian military leaders and scientists and destroyed an aboveground nuclear enrichment plant near Natanz.

Stars can throw high‑energy tantrums. Their sudden bursts of X‑ray and ultraviolet light, known as solar flares if they come from the Sun and stellar flares when they happen on other stars, pump out ...

"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus' largest moons ...

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus' largest moons are gathering dust — literally. Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun and home to 28 known moons, is well known for ...

The story of the James Webb Space Telescope begins 30 years ago, as NASA scientists were beginning to discuss a new space telescope, then called the Next Generation Space Telescope. Over the next ...

The Hubble Space Telescope observes about one percent of a full moon, and JWST observes about 75 percent of the moon’s disk. Each Rubin Observatory image captures an area about 45 times the size ...

However, the real secret sauce of the telescope is its camera—the automobile-sized Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera—which has a resolution of 3,200 megapixels. Which is rather a lot.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Scientists at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have unveiled the highly anticipated first images taken by its powerful telescope, and they’re stunning.

The Vera Rubin Observatory has published images of space taken by a new 8.3-meter telescope, which is scheduled to be launched in September 2025. The observatory team published the images of space on ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first images.The telescope sits atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, under some of the most ...