The Vera Rubin Observatory sits atop the mountain Cerro Pachón in northern Chile.

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

NASA had just unveiled a time-lapse of space. To create the video, the agency used one of the most powerful telescopes in ...

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

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its groundbreaking 10-year astronomy mission.

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

While orbiting telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope or the James Webb Space Telescope give researchers a unique view of ...

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

(Photo credit NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory) In a demonstration of the science platform for FedScoop, for example, O’Mullane made a query for images from May 22 of M49, a galaxy located 60 million ...

Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are ...