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

Even a speck of dust could alter the image quality. The high reflectivity and speed of this allow the telescope to capture a ...

The new observatory will allow astronomers to step through space and time like never before — these videos give us a taste of how.

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Scientists will be able to turn the roughly 60 million billion bytes of image data from the Vera Rubin Observatory into ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.

A stunning breakthrough in solar physics reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, thanks to the NSF's ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.