The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

Axiom Mission 4 astronauts dock the international Space Station, including the first Indian to set foot on the space station, ...

The world’s most powerful digital camera has taken its first photos, and they reveal the cosmos in stunning detail. Shared as ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

A stifling heat dome has been breaking temperature records across the U.S. this week. Now, the Northeast will start to see ...

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The Santa Barbara Museum of (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), ...

With more than two hundred payload deployments and one launch pad in New Zealand and two in the U.S., Rocket Lab has been associated with more than 1700 missions globally, providing materials for the ...

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...