Xiaofeng Qu, taken from Lijiang, Yunnan, China The Geminid meteor shower appears to rain down upon the Gaomeigu Astronomical ...

AUSTIN, Minn. (KTTC) –The Jay C. Hormel Nature Center can give the public a glimpse of what lies beyond Earth’s atmosphere ...

Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the United States opened in Chicago in 1930, while the first one in Asia opened in ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

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 ...

Just one image from the LSSTCam covers an area equivalent to the size of 45 full moons in the sky.” That one statistic, from the just-unveiled Vera C. Rubin Observatory, captures the scope of a ...

Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research ...

Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Dangerous heat dome scorches millions from Midwest to Northeast Top weather news for Tuesday, June 24, 2025: A massive heat dome fueling the first major heat ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 3,200-megapixel camera produces images requiring 400 4K screens for full display, generating ~20 terabytes of data nightly during its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space ...

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