On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

The world's largest digital camera is nearly complete. Scientists expect exciting discoveries once the 3.2 billion-pixel camera is paired with its telescope. NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory held a news conference Monday to unveil its first images to the public. VRO is named after the American astronomer Vera C. Rubin, who first established the presence of dark ...

With a 3,200-megapixel LSST camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create the "greatest movie of all time and the most informative map of the night sky ever assembled." When you purchase through ...

We first heard of plans by the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to build a huge astro camera with a 3.2-gigapixel resolution way back in 2012. The world's largest digital ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark matter and dark energy in unprecedented detail. On June ...

If you've ever tried to take a photo of the moon and stars, you know that astrophotography is incredibly challenging. Although there are tips and tricks for taking astrophotos on your cell phone, to ...

The 3.2-billion-pixel LSST Camera will collect 15 terabytes of data on the southern sky each night. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the ...

The iconic Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is back online after entering "safe mode" following a "software error." NASA announced operations had resumed late last week ...

As a human being, every time I see a new jaw-droppingly gorgeous astronomical image, I’m staggered by the beauty of the cosmos. But as an astronomer who’s been observing the universe his whole life, ...