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

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly what the instrument can do ...

Everything in space - from the Earth and Sun to black holes - accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe . The rest of the cosmos seems to ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies have just been unveiled ...

The Vatican is not in the business of launching space telescopes (at least not yet). But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t involved with the latest results from missions like the James Webb Space ...

The Vatican is not in the business of launching space telescopes (at least not yet). But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t ...

Some lucky Rochesterians became the first in the world to view images from the new Rubin Observatory. The images were ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, unveiling galaxies, nebulae and over 2,000 new asteroids.

The powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing some of its first images as part of an ambitious effort to effectively create a movie of all the changes in the southern night sky over a decade.

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

The U.S.-funded observatory, perched in an area of the Chilean Andes known for exceptionally dark skies, is equipped with the ...