Detailed photos from the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed that the recently discovered interstellar ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

The US-funded Vera Rubin Observatory in the dry mountains of Chile includes the largest digital camera ever made, and ...

Korean researchers studying topics ranging from cosmology to asteroid tracking are just beginning to immerse themselves in ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its groundbreaking 10-year astronomy mission.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory dazzled us with its first light images just a few weeks ago, showing just what it is capable of discovering – from new asteroids to new galaxies – in a matter of hours.

Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

Scientists at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, broke ...

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

Located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, the world's most powerful digital camera is set to transform how we see the universe.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...