“This will mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics,” the Rubin team announced ahead of the unveiling.

A breathtaking new image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures the star-forming region of Chamaeleon I, a site that ...

Part of the closest star-forming region to us, known as the Chamaeleon Complex, has been illuminated by the light of young ...

The Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile captured ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

In a new study, the team argues that the flash could be the first sign of dark matter ever detected on Earth. Dark matter, an ...

L ast week, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS released the data behind an incredible catalog of galaxies, ...

A wave of bills in state legislatures across the US is seeking to classify climate-heating methane gas as a source of “green” ...

Astronomers capture the universe’s brightest era, revealing when galaxies like the Milky Way first formed and began to shine.

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collects data at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona. Recent results from the survey suggest that dark energy is even weirder than ...

and the Dark Energy Survey (DES)—have collected massive amounts of data by observing millions of galaxies. Their findings suggest that dark energy is not constant; instead, it appears to be ...