The powerful device will scan the sky like never before, capturing vast amounts of data to reveal how the universe changes ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

The observatory telescope is embarking on a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation ...

“This will mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics,” the Rubin team announced ahead of the unveiling.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera is expected to capture more information about the universe than all optical ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released its first images, captured using the world’s largest digital camera, kicking off a 10-year mission to explore the changing universe in stunning detail.

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, ...

Serpens the Serpent is unique among the constellations because it’s separated into two parts with Ophiuchus the ...