The first images of the cosmos taken by the world’s largest digital camera onboard the Vera Rubin Observatory are about to be ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep,” remarked Anais Möller, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

Vantablack 310 is one of the darkest paints ever, and it could be the key to eliminating light pollution caused by satellites ...

Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover 2.85 million previously undetected objects in the solar system in its first year of ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with ...

I have to catch my breath as we climb the stairs inside the dome of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It is cool and quiet and enormous, a bit like a cathedral – until the entire dome booms into ...