The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe. By Jeffrey Kluger It’s easy to laugh at the ancient humans who thought of the nighttime sky as a sort of cosmic colander ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

Learn more about how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture more of our stunning universe.

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

Sometimes, a picture can be worth much more than a thousand words. For instance, one measure associated with the pictures below—new high-definition snapshots of the cosmos in its infancy—is ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

Effectively, the universe’s baby picture is a CMB map. For decades, satellite missions like COBE, ... This is so precise it can even be used to finesse our models of how the universe evolved.

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

The images of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is a fossil relic of the first light in the universe, reveal what the 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos was like just 380,000 years after the ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy — the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. The researchers ...