After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

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

A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when ...

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

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 ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, this observatory's first light is bound to be one for the textbooks.

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

The world's largest digital camera focuses on the Virgo Cluster, showing never-before-seen detail in our universe ...

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

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

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...