Ralph Waldo Emerson once penned the words “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe ...

Explore the Empire State Building in 3D, one of the most iconic skyscrapers in the world and a symbol of New York City.

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

To understand gravitational lensing and dark matter, James Jee, a professor at Yonsei University, says to think of a pond ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

Welcome aboard Carney’s Restaurant, where the chili burger reigns supreme and the dining room rolls nowhere at all. This stationary Union Pacific rail car on the Sunset Strip isn’t just a quirky LA ...

The Rubin Observatory, which can take images with a field of view of the sky that are the equivalent of 40 moons, discovered ...