NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is still doing fresh things, even after close to two decades of service, shown by a new ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey to uncover dark matter, track asteroids, and build a detailed view of our ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

The first deep space images from a mountaintop observatory in Chile have scientists excited for what they could soon learn ...

It looks like funky graphic art: splotches of brilliant purples and blues on a light green background, with dark curlicues twisting diagonally across the frame. But it’s not art. It’s a Bolivian ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.