At the summit of Cerro Pachón, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes is now capturing some of the oldest light in the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera. C.

King Filip and Queen Mathilde left for Chile on Monday morning for what will be the first Belgian state visit to a Latin ...

Later this year, the Rubin Observatory will launch its Legacy Survey of Space and Time. This 10-year project aims to scan the ...

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

The groundbreaking 3.2 gigapixel camera is designed to repeatedly survey the entire sky every few nights to create the first ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.