The powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing some of its first images as part of an ambitious effort to effectively create a movie of all the changes in the southern night sky over a decade.

A powerful new observatory has unveiled its first images to the public, showing off what it can do as it gets ready to start its main mission: making a vivid time-lapse video of the night sky that ...

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 ...

What happens here matters everywhere. by Alan Boyle on April 22, 2025 at 10:04 am April 22, 2025 at 3:52 pm The Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera is about the size of a small car. (Credit: Rubin ...

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 ...

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The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of ...

Mount St. Helens’ Johnston Ridge Observatory will remain closed to the public until at least 2026, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said Monday. A landslide last year damaged the only road to the ...

Clouds of gas and dust swirl within star-birthing regions 4,000 light-years away, seen in more detail than ever before. With this view of the Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula, the Vera C. Rubin ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory captured this view of 31/Atlas before it was identified. C.O. Chandler et al. Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later ...