This artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN 45 — the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ever found. The asteroid is shown surrounded by many other asteroids, ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Look event,hosted by the National Academies' Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and Astronomy, will be livestreamed from 11am-12:30pm ET on ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time to investigate mysteries like the nature of dark energy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Rubin Observatory's first images are amazing - take a tour in 4K Tour the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's views of the Virgo cluster, Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas.

A close-up on two spiral galactic members of the Virgo Cluster (NGC 4301 on the left, and Messier 61 on the right) as imaged by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. First look images made by the new ...

High in the mountains of Chile, a new telescope equipped with the world’s largest digital camera will collect more astronomical data in a single year than all others combined, and promises to ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered 11,000 new asteroids, including some that come close to Earth ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits on its mountain peak in Chile during observation activities in April 2025. The observatory will soon begin real-time nightly monitoring of the entire Southern ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/P. Marenfeld / NSF's NOIRLab Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking ...