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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon open its eyes to the cosmos, and scientists predict it will detect millions of vampire stars exploding as they feed on their stellar companions. Currently ...

Overcoming this challenge is especially important for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a groundbreaking facility currently under construction atop the mountain Cerro Pachón in Chile. Equipped with the ...

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

These are the breakthrough technologies MIT believes will significantly change our lives not only in 2025 but for decades to ...