The Legacy Survey of Space and Time telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory leverages novel technological systems to ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes is now capturing some of the oldest light in the ...

Perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, the newly-commissioned Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released some highly exciting first ...

The groundbreaking 3.2 gigapixel camera is designed to repeatedly survey the entire sky every few nights to create the first continuous movie of the cosmos at high resolution.

IEEE Spectrum takes you inside the most advanced sky-mapping instrument ever built—and reveals its stunning first images ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of ...

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

At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a digital camera that will create an unparalleled map of the cosmos.