Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

The glow of the Milky Way reflects off of Rubin Observatory’s silver dome in this photo from May 2025. Credit: Quint This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world’s most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images capture ...

After more than a decade under construction, the Vera Rubin Observatory has released its first images, which contain millions of galaxies. These first images are only the brief, initial glimpse of the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to detect up to 50 interstellar visitors in the coming years, giving a boost to astronomy ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

The Rubin Observatory will reveal its first images on Monday. Space.com spoke to scientists who explained why this will be a ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we’ve had in a long time. For Big Picture enthusiasts like myself, such an ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

A new telescope equipped with the world's largest digital camera will collect more astronomical data in a single year than all others combined. Vera C. Rubin Observatory set to usher in a new era of ...