A recent photograph taken from the Gemini South Observatory in Chile provides a breathtaking view of the Milky Way, offering ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

After more than 20 years of planning and construction, astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory today — and also registered hundreds of the first ...

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that revolutionize astronomy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The total solar eclipse coming April 8 is drawing everyone’s attention to the sky with renewed interest in astronomy. Count me among them. A recent visit to the Cincinnati Observatory in Mount Lookout ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos. The first spectacular images taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been ...

Update June 23, 2025, 11:40 A.M. CDT: Additional images and videos showing our dynamic universe have now been released! What do photos from the largest digital camera ever built look like? Now we know ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

The night skies above the Chilean desert are the best in the world to see deep into space, but light pollution from a planned industrial project could change that, as John Bartlett reports. JOHN ...