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

The Vera Rubin Observatory has released a video of the comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the world's largest digital camera.

Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

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

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

Some observatories that used to be dark and remote are now adjacent to bright urban centers. And sending all telescopes into ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

(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 ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capturing the night sky “like never before.” At such a critical ...

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