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

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 first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands ...

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

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

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

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 has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...

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