The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first image release includes a 'staggering' view of 10 million galaxies in and around the ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

In a public event on Monday, June 23, the astronomers who operate the powerful observatory released Rubin's debut images ...

Building Rubin Observatory in Chile spanned three decades and as many continents. Important support came from right here in ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in ...

One image is a composite of 678 exposures taken over seven hours, capturing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae – both several ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

A sweat-drenched crowd at a Wallace Wade Stadium watch party gathered to see the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

The legacy of astronomer Vera C. Rubin, for whom the observatory was named, was not just the way her work revolutionized ...