"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular ...

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

The Observatory, its funder, the National Science Foundation, and the White House did not respond to Space.com's request for comment on Feb. 3. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, seen against the ...

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 ... look forward to Rubin's decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), during which it's expected to detect millions of ...

(Main) An illustration shows the Vera C. Rubin observatory ... mountain Cerro Pachón, the Rubin Observatory is expected to begin its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) later this ...

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 recently achieved a significant milestone in its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST ... camera captured its first images of the night sky, marking an exciting ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile ... chip-based technology used to convert photons to images. “It was a gradual evolution and I started playing with those tiny CCDs,” ...

For more than five years, astronomers have sounded alarms about the effect satellite megaconstellations would have on their observations. The launch in 2019 of the first Starlink satellites ...