DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory debuted on June 23, 2025. Scientists at Duke and across the world await the groundbreaking data it will come to collect.

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

Building Rubin Observatory in Chile spanned three decades and as many continents. Important support came from right here in ...

Israel’s tally of the war damage it wrought on Iran includes the targeted killings of at least 14 scientists, an unprecedented attack on the brains behind Iran’s nuclear program that outside ...

An ultrasensitive small-animal PET scanner can image the entire body of a rat with sub-second temporal resolution ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is to create the largest time-lapse of sky using the world's largest digital camera. The first ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will capture more information about our universe than all optical telescopes throughout history ...

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department are playing a major role in the world’s most ambitious space project, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), led by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

On June 23, the first images from the much-anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón will be shown to ...

Universe's 'missing' matter found! "People are going to be amazed at what we're able to see already." ...

You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...