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

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...

An overview of the unique characteristics of the four prominent telescopes Hubble, James Webb, Euclid and Vera C. Rubin, which observe the universe from different perspectives. The article also ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

Vera Rubin fundamentally advanced our knowledge of galactic dynamics, laid the groundwork for dark matter research, and ...