By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

After years of preparation, U.K. astronomers are celebrating a major milestone as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals its first dazzling images of the night sky. This marks the beginning of the most ...

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

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 ...

Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

The South Pole Telescope has mapped our skies in more detail than ever before, strengthening our understanding of dark energy ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

They’ve turned on the sky. That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a ...

Ever since the dawn of civilization on this planet the bipedal animals human beings have wondered about the creation of this universe Science has been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding its ori ...

The observatory is named after Vera Rubin , an American astronomer, because she was a "trailblazing" astronomer, according to the facility's website, which noted Rubin "found conclusive evidence of ...