The largest digital camera ever built, it will photograph the entire southern sky in three nights. In just one night, it found 2,100 unknown asteroids.

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set to reveal secrets previously beyond our grasp.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars ...

The light pollution in these areas makes the entire sky appear light grey in colour, and the Milky Way is effectively invisible. A 2016 study estimated that even on the clearest night, one third ...

At the very darkest sites on Earth, far removed from humanity’s wasted sky-directed light, that background can be as dim as 22 mag/arcsec 2. I’d love to have a moonless night with my ...

Found in the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way on the sky, the Dark Wolf Nebula is located around 5300 light-years from Earth. This image takes up an area in the sky ...

The light keeps getting refracted through the ice crystals. And the higher the ice crystals are in the sky, the higher the light pillars can reach upward. Light pillars can come from above, too.