Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of ...

To comply with Trump's executive order about DEI, a federally funded telescope project has altered the biography of its ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to detect millions of exploding vampire stellar remnants called "white dwarfs," shedding light on dark energy.

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer to Earth than another, or is it just emitting more light? To make ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...

NASA claims that there are "no new bans" on employees' personal items, amid reports of the agency purging workspaces of ...

Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.

A major scientific breakthrough is anticipated with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction on Cerro Pachón in Chile, as it prepares to embark on its decade-long Legacy Survey of ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon begin scanning the southern hemisphere sky every night for ten years, covering the entire hemisphere approximately every few nights. Every time Rubin ...