A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey to uncover dark matter, track asteroids, and build a detailed view of our ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

The decade-long wait for UK astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

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

Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...

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

The wife of famous zoo owner John Aspinall, ‘Sally’ was born into nobility but spent her life defying expectations ...

Scientists will be able to turn the roughly 60 million billion bytes of image data from the Vera Rubin Observatory into ...

A spectacular astronomical event has unfolded in the southern constellation of Lupus as a newly discovered nova, V462 Lupi, ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy ...