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.

Two physics professors at the University at Albany are trying to create a new, legitimate scientific field studying UFOs.

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 ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

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

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

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