At first glance, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s newest image looks like a dense field of stars. Look closer, and the scale ...

A new Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field ...

The observatory recently began its 10-year survey of the southern sky using the world's largest digital camera.

A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the ...

The Rubin Observatory’s 3.2 gigapixel camera has captured a deep view of the universe containing more than half a million ...

The latest image from the world's largest camera captures an overwhelming number of galaxies on a 3200MP car-sized camera ...

After more than 20 years of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready for its grand opening, and the world is invited. The observatory in the foothills of the Chilean Andes ...

The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back. Beside me were two-ton custom jigs and dozens ...

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 of ...

Legacy Survey of Space and Time is expected to find millions of asteroids and perhaps shed light on dark matter and dark energy, with an assist from University of Washington astronomers.

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of the cosmos seems to be made of an invisible material astronomers call dark ...