A new telescope equipped with the world's largest digital camera will collect more astronomical data in a single year than all others combined.

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 best estimates suggest Rubin should detect between 5 and 50 ISOs over its 10 year survey, stemming from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week the Rubin Observatory released the first data from a newly commissioned telescope. Astronomers, engineers and computer scientists have been planning this project for about 20 years. It is ...

This image shows a small section of the Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster, including two spiral galaxies at lower right, three merging galaxies at upper right, several groups of distant ...

Named in honor of female astronomer Vera Rubin, whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation provided key evidence for dark matter, the Vera Rubin Observatory uses the world's largest digital camera to ...

The Rubin Observatory launches with a 3,200MP camera and nightly 20TB imaging. Duke physicists aid Rubin's hardware and software to enhance dark matter detection. Rubin's 10-year sky survey aims to ...