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

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly what the instrument can do ...

The observatory, funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science, released its inaugural imagery Monday, June 23, showcasing stars, galaxies, and cosmic ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

NASA has just released a new documentary about the most powerful space telescope ever built, and you can watch it now.

The end of the cosmic dark ages and the start of cosmic dawn mark the time when the universe as we know it began to take shape. We can’t see back to this cosmic era.

Held together by their mutual gravity, several of the dwarf galaxies (designated D1 to D5) are rhythmically dancing with one another while others are engaged in a "cosmic tug of war," ripping gas and ...

Learn about a cosmic project that will journey to the dark side of the moon in order to listen for the Universe’s earliest echoes.

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

Held together by their mutual gravity, several of the dwarf galaxies (designated D1 to D5) are rhythmically dancing with one another while others are engaged in a "cosmic tug of war," ripping gas ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky ...