And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Recapping some of the most talked-about news this week from the nation and around the world – in case you missed it.

The Santa Barbara Museum of (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), ...

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will capture more information about our universe than all optical telescopes throughout history combined,” declared Brian Stone, National Science Foundation Chief of Staff, ...

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

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A stifling heat dome has been breaking temperature records across the U.S. this week. Now, the Northeast will start to see ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

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

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

Science News: In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to be the world's largest opt ...

Another recent progress photo taken on April 14 using one of the live webcams on site captured the bright Milky Way flowing above the telescope's dome, illuminated by stars shining in the night ...