With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera 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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers are on the verge of a groundbreaking leap in our understanding of the solar system, thanks to the highly ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

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

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

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

Light streaks caused by passing satellites mar images taken by the world's most expensive telescopes. The problem is set to ...

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