A cloud of gas and dust, the Trifid Nebula is three things at once, hence its name ("trifid" means split into three parts). The pink is an emission nebula, a diffuse cloud of ionized gas that emits ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile marks a new era in cosmic exploration. Its unique capabilities will revolutionize our ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), ...

Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

Rubin Observatory debuts with vivid images of the Lagoon The new telescope will scan the southern sky every three to four ...

The Rubin Observatory, which can take images with a field of view of the sky that are the equivalent of 40 moons, discovered 2,400 asteroids that no one has ever seen before. And that’s just the tip ...

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey to uncover dark matter, track asteroids, and build a detailed view of our ...

This is just 0.5 percent of all the galaxies that the Rubin Observatory will collect during its Legacy Survey of Space and ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, ...