Some of the most intriguing science fiction springs from eerie, real-life phenomena. Case in point, the mutant parasite in the video game series “The Last of Us.” ...

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

Quantum computing is a new way of computing that uses the strange rules of tiny particles to solve problems much faster than ...

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world's most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile marks a new era in cosmic exploration. Its unique capabilities will revolutionize our ...

Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

The Rubin Observatory, which can take images with a field of view of the sky that are the equivalent of 40 moons, discovered 2,400 asteroids that no one has ever seen before. And that’s just the tip ...

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey to uncover dark matter, track asteroids, and build a detailed view of our ...