The world’s largest digital camera has revealed its first images. The size of a small car, the Legacy Survey of Space and ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a new interstellar object hurtling through our solar system, on a trajectory that brings it closer to the Sun than any interstellar visitor before it. The ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

The camera already captured millions of galaxies and stars, as well as thousands of asteroids in initial test observations.

The Santa Barbara Museum of (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

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Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

Cities, the Vera C. Rubin and LIGO observatories reveal cosmic secrets, one capturing light and the other listening for the ...