With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep,” remarked Anais Möller, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

On 23 June, a new chapter in astronomy begins as the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveils its first images of the universe. Register now to join the watch party at Sonnenborgh in Utrecht ...