One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...
The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...
Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark matter ...
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
The vast, unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky, Montana its name made for ... infinite vistas visible to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). As the location of the "First Day of Issue" for ...
The telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. "We're going to see the very first stars and galaxies ...