With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

Advances in Very High Energy Astrophysics summarises the progress made by the third generation of imaging atmospheric ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the hottest nova explosions ever discovered.

Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer to take the first close-up pictures of a star outside the Milky Way.

The Rubin Observatory marks the beginning of a new era in cosmic research. Astronomers will only need high-speed networks, cloud computing, and AI algorithms to perform research anytime, anywhere.

The observatory, directed by public health expert and Professor of Biology Philip J. Landrigan, takes shape as BC develops the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, the centerpiece of ...

Perched high in the Chilean Andes, the observatory will take hundreds of images of the southern hemisphere sky, every night for 10 years. In doing so, it will create the most complete time-lapse ...

The first spectacular images the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has captured are expected to be released during a public event beginning at 11 a.m. ET Monday, June 23, 2025.

Campaigners have said they still have concerns over the future of a historical observatory in East Sussex. Herstmonceux Observatory, formerly owned by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, has been ...

Egyptologists have excavated a nearly 9,150-square-foot astronomical observatory in modern-day Tell el-Faraeen dating back to the sixth century BCE—the first and largest of its kind from that era.

It’s here that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon use a car-size 3,200-megapixel digital camera—the largest ever built—to produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days.