A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

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

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

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