They’ve turned on the sky. That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a ...

The first images of the universe from the world's largest digital camera coming from the Rubin Observatory in Chile are now available. Dr. Sidney Wolff, was the woman behind the project.

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

A celebration of the long-awaited first images from a major new observatory is overshadowed by proposed severe budget cuts at ...

Duke researchers say they have played a key role in developing a groundbreaking telescope that is now capturing the most detailed images of the universe ever taken.

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side.

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

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

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

Astronomy enters a new era as Rubin Observatory’s nonstop imaging and AI tools let scientists study the universe from ...