Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

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.

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. This ...

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

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, ...

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

Using an extraordinary digital camera designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

The first pictures released show 10 million galaxies. It's a small start, just 0.05 percent of the overall mission to map out almost 20 billion galaxies in the future. By taking a regular survey the ...

In 2019, a congressional bill was introduced to rename the former Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. In June 2025, the U.S. Mint released a quarter featuring Vera Rubin.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera is expected to capture more information about the universe than all optical telescopes throughout history combined. This morning, the world’s largest ...

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