The Vera Rubin Observatory sits atop the mountain Cerro Pachón in northern Chile.

Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

A comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, with 3I short for "third interstellar," sparked immediate excitement on July 1 when it was ...

Scientists have issued a concerning update on a mystery interstellar object travelling through our solar system.

Detailed photos from the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed that the recently discovered interstellar ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in the constellation Sagittarius. These colorful clouds of gas and dust, each ...

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.” At such a critical ...