Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

But researchers have just demonstrated that once you are far away from the planets of the Solar System, there might be a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

An international team of researchers has analyzed 111 JWST images of distant edge-on galaxies, or ones where the alignments ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our ...

NASA has released a breathtaking new image of the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor. Also known as Messier 31, or M31, Andromeda is located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth.