Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place. It's called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and even though it’s located in Chile, it's funded and operated by the U.S. government. In a ...

The Rubin Observatory is scheduled to release its first images in 2025. RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/B. Quint Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to ...

Astronomers are about to begin making a time lapse of the night sky using the largest digital camera ever constructed. Designed to reveal any new or moving point of light as well as the structure of ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

Out in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the observatory has a clearer view thanks to no light pollution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The glowing light shows the intricate details that make this cutting-edge telescope work. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Named ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Samantha Thompson, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Everything in space – ...