The images document just over 10 hours of test observations from the start of the observatory's decade-long mission. Later this year, the observatory will repeatedly scan the sky ...

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

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

IMAX’s Deep Sky has been shown previously at limited IMAX theaters including California Science Center, where it focuses on beautiful documentaries on the big screen such as Blue Whales 3D ...

I don’t live in a place whose sky is flushed by fire, so I asked the author Robin Sloan, who lives in Oakland, California, to take photos illustrating the phenomenon. The image on the left ...

In 2024, satellite images helped us cover events such as wildfires, floods and wars. As the year ends, we look back at some of the most impactful images.