L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes ...

Construction of the telescope mount structure began in Illinois last year, and the scope’s first adaptive secondary mirror and first precision radial velocity spectrograph — the Large Earth ...

in a design intended to make the telescope compact and nimble. Light from the cosmos bounces from the mirror’s outer surface to a secondary mirror, back to the main mirror’s inner surface, and from ...

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...