Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

Using an extraordinary digital camera designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the Vera Rubin Observatory ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory was conceived nearly 30 years ago, and now we are finally seeing the first images captured by ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...

The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

“This will mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics,” the Rubin team announced ahead of the unveiling.

The Rubin Observatory’s Mission. The observatory’s goal was not always so broad. Originally named the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the Rubin Observatory was initially proposed as a ...

Scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, or CLASS, project used telescopes uniquely designed to detect the fingerprints left by the first stars in ...

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The Rubin Observatory’s telescope, ... The effort, originally called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, was named as a top priority in the US Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey of 2010.