A brilliant new class of cosmic explosions has been uncovered—so powerful they outshine anything scientists have ever seen.

One image is a composite of 678 exposures taken over seven hours, capturing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae – both several ...

The Rubin Observatory sits on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, with the digital camera scanning the sky to create an ...

The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...

The observatory is named after Vera Rubin , an American astronomer, because she was a "trailblazing" astronomer, according to the facility's website, which noted Rubin "found conclusive evidence of ...

Rescuers carry an injured civilian following Russia's missile attack in Dnipro, 24 June, 2025 ...

A sweat-drenched crowd at a Wallace Wade Stadium watch party gathered to see the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

Starting at a welcome table at the base of the dune, visitors will stroll through a lantern-lit one-mile trail up to the dune ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's primary mirror is 8.4 meters in diameter, which makes it one of the largest optical ...