The Vera Rubin Observatory sits atop the mountain Cerro Pachón in northern Chile.

Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it. It's going to be fun." ...

Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether it's an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time finding it.

The university’s critical contribution allows the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to fulfill its mission as a high-tech research tool that is revolutionizing how we explore worlds beyond our own.

Foxconn will start adopting the design of NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin AI servers, expected to ship sometime in the ...

Korean researchers studying topics ranging from cosmology to asteroid tracking are just beginning to immerse themselves in ...

A comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, with 3I short for "third interstellar," sparked immediate excitement on July 1 when it was ...

The US-funded Vera Rubin Observatory in the dry mountains of Chile includes the largest digital camera ever made, and ...