The U.S.-funded Rubin Observatory will chart the entire southern cosmos over the next decade.

Astronomers are about to begin making a time lapse of the night sky using the largest digital camera ever constructed.Designed to reveal any new or moving point of light as well as the structure of ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a local event or online on Monday ...

After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to release its first images from the world’s newest and most powerful survey telescope, equipped with the largest digital camera ever built, which will ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

In a landmark moment for modern astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first-ever test images, and they’re ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions in spectacular detail.

The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts.

The camera already captured millions of galaxies and stars, as well as thousands of asteroids in initial test observations.

There’s only one thing big enough to be the subject of a camera the size of a car — space. Since 2012, the U.S. Department of ...