A brilliant new class of cosmic explosions has been uncovered—so powerful they outshine anything scientists have ever seen.

NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space are targeting an early Wednesday launch window for their Axiom-4 mission that will take four ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side.

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in ...

The observatory is named after Vera Rubin , an American astronomer, because she was a "trailblazing" astronomer, according to the facility's website, which noted Rubin "found conclusive evidence of ...

A sweat-drenched crowd at a Wallace Wade Stadium watch party gathered to see the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

Lanchester sees statistics as a product of the same Enlightenment that gave birth to the United States—“numbers created by the state to help it understand itself and ultimately to govern itself.” And ...

Building Rubin Observatory in Chile spanned three decades and as many continents. Important support came from right here in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's primary mirror is 8.4 meters in diameter, which makes it one of the largest optical ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...