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 ...

The study focused on two black holes — our galaxy's Sgr A* and M87*, located 55 million light-years away. Both were ...

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

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...

The world will get a first look at images of the universe taken by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which has the planet’s ...