The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is home to the largest digital camera ever built – and it just took its first photos ...

Cameras based on charge-coupled-device (CCD) detectors are continuing to prove useful in scientific fields as diverse as biosciences and astronomy. Technological improvements have made them more ...

On a remote Chilean mountaintop, inside a domed observatory named after astronomer Vera Rubin, a camera unlike any the world ...

A new study uncovers how PM2.5 air pollution cripples respiratory defences, while astronomers prepare to map the cosmos with ...

The Vera Rubin telescope, which is set to open its eyes to the sky later this month, has a 26-foot-wide (8.4 meters) mirror, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to release its first images from the world’s newest and most powerful survey telescope, ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

A stronomers are ready to share with the world the very first groundbreaking images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

You can see the extent of The Cosmic Treasure Chest in the video above, or you can use the special viewfinder to explore the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is to create the largest time-lapse of sky using the world's largest digital camera. The first ...