Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a local event or online on Monday ...

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

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

After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to release its first images from the world’s newest and most powerful survey telescope, equipped with the largest digital camera ever built, which will ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...

World’s Largest Astronomy Camera Releases Its First Images The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory offer a glimpse of far-away galaxies and swirling nebulae.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera weighs nearly 2,800 kilograms and boasts an extraordinary 3,200-megapixel ...