The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, in Chile, saw its first photon a few months ago, a monumental event 25 years in the making. Senior Editor Evan Ackerman’s journey to Chile, to see the observatory and ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a sneak peak of some of the images it is unveiling, the first set of space images from the Chile-based facility. One of the first images released shows the ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will take ultra-high-resolution images of the southern hemisphere night sky every three ...

This observatory was built to help scientists and astronomers to study the cosmos, and just in its first moments online, it ...

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...

The world’s largest digital camera has revealed its first images. The size of a small car, the Legacy Survey of Space and ...

The ultra-rare object is travelling at about 245,000 kilometres an hour and will fly deep into the solar system, skimming past Mars.

The object, a celestial body from another star system, was discovered on Tuesday by the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid ...