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

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

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 ...

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

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

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