An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter particles called electrons that you can think of as orbiting around the ...

Hungarian Astronaut Tibor Kapu, as one of a crew of four, has left the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the International ...

Ever since the dawn of civilization on this planet the bipedal animals human beings have wondered about the creation of this universe Science has been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding its ori ...

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.

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

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

The legacy of astronomer Vera C. Rubin, for whom the observatory was named, was not just the way her work revolutionized ...

The observatory is named after pioneering American astronomer Vera C. Rubin, whose research provided the first conclusive ...

Smith found that while the irregular shape and roughness of the lunar dust still irritates the lungs, its effects are ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, would focus on possibly 160,000 gravitational lenses, of which ...

A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when ...