The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

Exploration of the outer solar system may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO). When this gigantic ...

"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular are not going to take these threats lying down." ...

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been equipped with all three of its ...

The world’s largest digital camera ever made has now been installed and could start photographing the galaxy as early as next ...

Weighing over 3,000 kilograms, the LSST Camera will capture unprecedented, ultra-high-definition images covering the entire ...

In the summer, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is due to start work in the summer, with the world's largest digital camera at ...

After scientists at Menlo Park’s SLAC national accelerator laboratory spent over two decades developing and constructing a ...

Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...

CERRO PACHON, Chile - Driving up the mountain road to reach the U.S. National Science Foundation’s newest observatory in Chile, which will begin observations later this year, astronomer Beth Willman ...