Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...

The first experience that an alien civilization might have of us may not be telecommunications – no ETs watching early The ...

China's Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites, known as SJ-21 and SJ-25 for short, likely docked together in geosynchronous ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass. In a first-of-its-kind observation, astronomers have found a giant exoplanet in ...

The observatory’s first look features the vibrant Trifid and Lagoon nebulas located thousands of light-years from Earth. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles. A gaggle of galaxies known as the ...

Here are the first-ever images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

A powerful new observatory has unveiled its first images to the public, showing off what it can do as it gets ready to start its main mission: making a vivid time-lapse video of the night sky that ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

Scientists and engineers in California are building a unique 3.2 billion pixel camera for a telescope under construction in Chile. The camera has taken its first test pictures — of broccoli. “It’s a ...

23 June 2025 · 6-min read The first image revealed by the Vera Rubin telescope shows the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae in stunning detail [NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory] ...

How to see 1st images from telescope in Chile: Watch live The first spectacular images the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has captured are expected to be released during a public event beginning at 11 ...

The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new telescope perched atop a mountain in Chile, released its first images of the universe on June 23—and its views are just as jaw ...