But the movie is as much a celebration of the scientists who brought them home as the astronauts who kept their cool while ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

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

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have discovered a vast 23 million light-year-wide tendril connecting galactic clusters and containing much of the universe's missing matter.

A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.

Vera Rubin is part of an impressive photo taken during the NASA Sponsors Women in Astronomy and Space Science 2009 Conference, held at the University of Maryland in October 2009.Anne Kinney, (from ...

The legacy of astronomer Vera C. Rubin, for whom the observatory was named, was not just the way her work revolutionized ...