No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's primary mirror is 8.4 meters in diameter, which makes it one of the largest optical ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

Jupiter will be too close to the sun to see Tuesday, but it will move farther out in the dawn sky and on Aug. 12 will have a ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

While rockets today take humans to space as often as earthbound folks drive to the grocery store, traveling beyond the ...

The first test images from a groundbreaking observatory named for trailblazing astronomer Vera Rubin have captured the light ...