The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

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 debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

The first mind-bending images taken by the observatory were released today in the tradition of “first light,” a new ...

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

Chile hosts some of the world's most advanced observatories, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the future Extremely Large ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

The Rubin Observatory sits on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, with the digital camera scanning the sky to create an ...

Penetrating deep space to unlock the secrets of ... Perched atop Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama Desert at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, the ESO Extremely Large Telescope captures ...

Microwave-Emitting Object Is a New Space Mystery; An array of 66 radio telescopes located under the remarkably clear skies of the Chajnantor Plateau in the Atacama Desert, ALMA (as its name ...

Rare methanol isotopes were found in young star HD 100453, offering new insights into the chemistry that could seed planets ...