On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, has been under construction for years — and later this month workers are ...

CERRO PACHON, Chile - Driving up the mountain road to reach the U.S. National Science Foundation’s newest observatory in Chile, which will begin observations later this year, astronomer Beth ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

The pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin is known globally for discovering powerful evidence of dark matter in the universe. But Rubin, who died Sunday at age 88, is also renowned for her passionate ...

Vera Rubin, M.S. ’51, the pioneering astronomer whose groundbreaking research on galaxy rotation rates provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter, will be honored on a U.S. Quarter ...