While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

"It's like discovering a continent you didn't know existed," Valerio Carruba of the São Paulo State University in Brazil, who ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery inside a tiny grain from the asteroid Ryugu that could change what we thought we ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released its first images, captured using the world’s largest digital camera, kicking off a 10-year mission to explore the changing universe in stunning detail.

Earlier this year, a “city killer” asteroid made headlines for its slim chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA now says that ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

Astronomers unveiled the first images of distant galaxies from an advanced telescope, opening a new era in space discovery.

In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands ...

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...