The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capturing the night sky “like never before.” The snapshots ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world’s most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images capture ...

The Rubin Observatory will eventually hold the world's largest digital camera. It's therefore a good sign it has aced its ...

NASA has released its longest-ever time-lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing the expanding remains of Kepler’s Supernova, one of the most powerful stellar explosions ever witnessed by ...

The mysteries of the universe are drawing in folks of all ages like a magnet to Taylor Observatory and Norton Planetarium in Kelseyville in Lake County. Night sky mysteries are regularly explored by ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, will begin operating this year and survey the sky for 10 years, capturing a uniquely detailed image of the cosmos. Tony Tyson, ...

Astronomers have released a rare time-lapse video showing the violent expansion of a dead star over two decades. The footage ...

As part of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event in June 2025, Rubin announced that it had observed thousands of asteroids cruising ...

One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental discoveries about our universe.