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

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

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Stargazers can see the universe like never before when the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils its first images from the ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

The groundbreaking 3.2 gigapixel camera is designed to repeatedly survey the entire sky every few nights to create the first ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.