Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After more than a decade under construction, the Vera Rubin Observatory has released its first images, which contain millions of ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects. Galileo Galilei quickly improved the designs and became the first to explore ...

I just visited the most advanced telescope on Earth - The Vera C. Rubin Observatory cost over $1,000,000,000, took 20 years ...

On a mountaintop at the edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile, the world’s newest telescope is poised to begin a revolutionary survey of the southern hemisphere’s observable universe, one that promises ...

Perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, the newly-commissioned Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released some highly exciting first images that offer a stunning preview of its unprecedented capabilities.

Astronomers truly live in a bold new era, where ground-breaking camera technology could change the way we understand the ...

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, and all in a truly new way. In its first 10 ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has achieved a major milestone with the installation of the ...

National Science Foundation and Department of Energy will host a full reveal event streaming on the agency's YouTube channel. Live watch parties are also taking place all over the world. Named for ...