Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

The Rubin Observatory will eventually hold the world's largest digital camera. It's therefore a good sign it has aced its ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

A massive new telescope erected in Chile will explore this question and other cosmic unknowns. It’s named for Vera Rubin ... Soon, her namesake observatory will carry on that work in much ...

Thanks to a new observatory set to come online in 2025 ... but we don’t know what it is. So Vera Rubin telescope should help us get much better measurements by studying, again, the movement ...

A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic landers reached the lunar surface, largely intact. The most powerful rocket booster ever built was caught by a pair of mechanical arms nicknamed ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...