Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…

High atop a mountain in Chile, under some of the world’s clearest, darkest skies, a new era of…

Over the next ten years, a groundbreaking facility in northern Chile will capture a full view of the…

A technique that planet hunters have never used at scale has found 27 candidate worlds orbiting binary star…

View of Vera C. Rubin Observatory beneath the glittering band of the Milky Way. NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory spent the night staring at the dark cosmos, alerting astronomers of ongoing changes…

Researchers have identified 19 super- and ultra-fast-rotating asteroids, including one that is the fastest-spinning asteroid of its kind.…

A strange tilt in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt has scientists wondering if the solar system…

Vera C. Rubin Observatory As technology improves by leaps and bounds, so does our understanding and glimpses into…

The recent arrival of a mysterious new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, made headlines after astronomers initially spotted it in…

The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe