The team behind the long-awaited Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile published their first images this week, revealing ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

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

University of Washington scientists have worked for years to help bring the Vera C. Rubin Observatory online so it can begin ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

France has closed the Eiffel Tower summit and shuttered almost 2,000 schools as a brutal heatwave breaks temperature records ...

It was a favourite holiday spot for a young Queen Victoria, and is now a popular destination for tourists looking for a ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

Extreme heat and wildfire alerts have been issued across Europe as a deadly heatwave sweeps across the continent, causing at ...

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

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, ...