The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Webb is meant to observe more than just ancient stars and galaxies. The telescope can study nearly everything from the planets of our solar system to star-forming regions millions of light-years away.

Located just 1,470 light-years from Earth in the Vela Constellation, the object is just a few thousand years old. Over millions of years, NASA says, the stars will fully form. WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE ...

Just beyond this fragile layer lies the vastness of space, a place so empty and expansive that it’s hard to fully grasp. Stepping past the atmosphere, you’d find yourself in a realm filled ...

The result is that no stars are visible in the background, just as the stars would not be visible in your own photos from Earth. The only exception is Apollo 16, which took an instrument named the ...

Because space-time is flexible, you can make it wave. Just like snapping a bedsheet, if you move enough matter around fast enough, a wave of distorted space-time will ripple outward into the universe.