The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, unveiling galaxies, nebulae and over 2,000 new asteroids.

The 6,000-pound camera was built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park. It has the largest lens built for ...

Astronomers face a data deluge from observatories like Vera Rubin — simulated skies may be key to training algorithms to keep ...

A festinating new theory shifts focus from space to time, arguing the clock-ticking we take for granted is richer and weirder ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is operational and will soon embark on its primary mission: to take a detailed image ...

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 ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images as it begins its 10-year mission conducting the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The LSST will revolutionize ast ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes is now capturing some of the oldest light in the ...

The new observatory will allow astronomers to step through space and time like never before — these videos give us a taste of how.