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

Serendipitously, the Rubin Observatory collected imaging in the area of the sky inhabited by the object during regular ...

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

A comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, with 3I short for "third interstellar," sparked immediate excitement on July 1 when it was ...

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

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

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

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

In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire ...

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

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

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capturing the night sky “like never before.” At such a critical ...