The state-of-the-art observatory sits on a mountain summit in Chile at a little over 8,000 feet above sea level.

With the recent release of its first images, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is one giant step closer to launching its Legacy Survey of Space and ...

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

The observatory made international news as it released its first images this week. The observatory took over two decades to ...

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The first deep space images from a mountaintop observatory in Chile have scientists excited for what they could soon learn ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...

China yesterday hosted defense ministers, including from Iran and Russia, at a meeting in Qingdao against the backdrop of a ...

Rubin Observatory shared its first images with the world: stunning photographs of spiral galaxies, nebulas, and stars strung ...

The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts.

You can see the extent of The Cosmic Treasure Chest in the video above, or you can use the special viewfinder to explore the image yourself, to hunt for a never-before-seen galaxy. You can even ...