The Vera Rubin Observatory just shared its first light and the results are wild. With a 3.2-gigapixel camera (LSST), Rubin can capture a field of view equal to ~40 full Moons per shot, streaming ~20 ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...

A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be captured by anyone with basic viewing equipment. Astronomer Yicheng Zhang ...

The comet will be visible for anyone with a telescope or very good binoculars in the hours before ... If you’re unsure where ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Here's where Comet 3I/ATLAS, Lemmon and SWAN are in the Halloween sky.

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...