The telescope has the world's largest digital camera, which is the size of a small car, weighs 2,800 kg, and boasts a ...

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

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

The observatory’s software will automatically compare new images with older ones and generate an estimated 10 million alerts ...

In this work we present an experimental demonstration of the comparative study of imaging quality of one of the non-uniform sized (NUS) optically-sparse aperture (OSA) mirror configurations - the ...

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

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

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

The University of Hawaii’s 2.2-meter (88 inch) telescope on Maunakea has been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as an IEEE Milestone, a significant honor spotlighting ...

Just one image from the LSSTCam covers an area equivalent to the size of 45 full moons in the sky.” That one statistic, from the just-unveiled Vera C. Rubin Observatory, captures the scope of a ...

A lightweight telescope that a team of NASA scientists and engineers is developing specifically for CubeSat scientific investigations could become the first to carry a mirror made of carbon nanotubes ...

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