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

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

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 ...

Inside the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile ... have a complete A-Z of our solar system,’ Dr Ed Bloomer, senior astronomy manager at the Royal Museums Greenwich in London, told Metro.

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

Rubin Observatory, which might capture its first views of the night sky this year, as early as July 4. Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor ...