Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

After more than 20 years of planning and construction, astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory today — and also registered hundreds of the first ...

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that revolutionize astronomy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory uses the world's largest digital camera to capture incredibly detailed images of space. It will create a 10-year, time-lapse movie of the southern sky, showing how the ...

The total solar eclipse coming April 8 is drawing everyone’s attention to the sky with renewed interest in astronomy. Count me among them. A recent visit to the Cincinnati Observatory in Mount Lookout ...