Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the aspiring astronomer to avoid science.

The Vera Rubin Observatory launched and produced its first images on June 23, 2025. The Chilean-based observatory will be ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first glamour shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is an 18-story facility that will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 ...

NEW YORK — The largest digital camera ever built released its first glamour shots of the universe Monday — including colorful nebulas, stars and galaxies. The observatory's first look features ...

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars and galaxies.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars and galaxies.