The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

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

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile captured spectacular images at an 'unprecedented scale' during a 10-hour test run. The capabilities of the world's largest telescope were made public by ...

Scientists unveiled the first images from what they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built," and ...

Vera Rubin Observatory has an ideal position atop Cerro Pachón in Chile and is predicted to be the most effective observatory.

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...