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

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

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

Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover 2.85 million previously undetected objects in the solar system in its first year of ...

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 ...

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

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

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 have discovered a new class of bright, long-lasting cosmic explosions that offer a new probe into studying the ...

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

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 ...