More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Rubin Observatory shared its first images with the world: stunning photographs of spiral galaxies, nebulas, and stars strung ...

A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, will peer simultaneously fast, wide and deep across and into the sky, capturing everything moving, changing or staying constant night by night.

On August 1, 2014, workers began construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Fast forward a decade later, and the LSST—now ...

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

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

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

The effort, originally called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, was named as a top priority in the US Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey of 2010.