Since its founding in 1894, Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has been a beacon of astronomical discovery, its scientists famously identifying Pluto and revealing the expanding universe. Now, Lowell ...

At the heart of Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory is the largest camera human beings have ever built. Around the size of a ...

The Milky Way spreads across the night sky above the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Credit: Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / H. Stockebrand The casual observer may envision the night sky as ...

Whether she’s shuttling between meetings at Yale’s Wright Lab or conferring with colleagues around the world, Laura Newburgh’s thoughts of late rarely stray far from the Simons Observatory in northern ...

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Perched high in the Chilean Andes, the observatory ...

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 ...

One of the biggest questions in astronomy today is about something we can't see: dark matter. Scientists know that there must be something in the universe which has mass — and a lot of it — because of ...