Vera Rubin Observatory, the newly built home of the largest telescope in the world, unveiled its first test imagery on Monday, including never-before-seen aspects of outer space. Rubin, due to its ...

"Space Telescope History Project"--Cover. "These items from ... were selected by the Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the first images it revealed made waves across the astronomical world. Those images are still among the most relevant pictures ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), showing the first images from the Vera C. Rubin ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the brightest blasts of radio energy ever detected in Earth's skies. When you ...

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...