The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

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

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will capture more information about our universe than all optical telescopes throughout history ...

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

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...

An ultrasensitive small-animal PET scanner can image the entire body of a rat with sub-second temporal resolution ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...