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

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian and considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

A brand-new, cutting-edge telescope called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to release its first images to the world, ...

After more than 20 years of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready for its grand opening, and the ...

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

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

Astronomers have been waiting for the Vera C Rubin Observatory to open for 30 years. So what is it, and how will it change ...

The National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been under construction atop Cerro Pachón in Chile since 2015. Housing an 8.4-meter telescope ...

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 Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits on the peak of Cerro Pachón in Chilean Andes. 31,515 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?31,515 people played the ...

Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the ...