With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with ...

Light streaks caused by passing satellites mar images taken by the world's most expensive telescopes. The problem is set to ...

I have to catch my breath as we climb the stairs inside the dome of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It is cool and quiet and enormous, a bit like a cathedral – until the entire dome booms into ...