The biggest and best movie of the universe began production this week—at the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, rather than in Hollywood. This unique telescope is using the world’s largest ...
Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will create the most comprehensive record of the universe to date.
The Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun a 10-year sky survey, using the world’s largest digital camera to find asteroids, supernovae and anything else that moves.
The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin ...
The project is expected to enable pioneering discoveries by scientists around the world, and ultimately deliver a time-lapse ...
Rubin is now capturing a new detailed image approximately every 40 seconds, covering faint objects, as well as fleeting ...
Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with ...
The first half of 2026 brought five major space discoveries that challenged existing scientific theories, from record-breaking black holes and an ancient interstellar comet to surprising findings ...
A gas giant planet called WD 1856b, orbiting the burned-out core of a dead, sun-like star. And in a new study published today in Nature, researchers report an even wilder discovery: Not only is WD ...
It’s sometimes easy to overlook the fact that the International Space Station (ISS) is a giant lab where scientists study ...
Across two floors, Báez invites us to contemplate the slippage from order to collapse, as entropy drives us ever closer to the state of chaos that existed before creation.