This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

Currently in its testing phase, the partial commissioning of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is already yielding ...

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Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...

Rubin Observatory finds 11,000 new asteroids in early data, including near-Earth and distant objects, before its main 10-year ...

The most powerful digital camera ever built has released its first pictures of the universe. Beautiful galaxies shine in the images that show a vast picture of colourful nebulae and stars. They come ...

A close-up on two spiral galactic members of the Virgo Cluster (NGC 4301 on the left, and Messier 61 on the right) as imaged by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. First look images made by the new ...

High in the mountains of Chile, a new telescope equipped with the world’s largest digital camera will collect more astronomical data in a single year than all others combined, and promises to ...

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...

Christopher W. Stubbs, a professor of physics and astronomy at Harvard, says there are lots of upsides to the era in which we ...

Wake up, astronomers—the universe is calling. The astronomical observatory equipped with world’s largest camera hit a key milestone on February 24, when a complex data-processing system pushed ...