Extreme heat and wildfire alerts have been issued across Europe as a deadly heatwave sweeps across the continent, causing at ...

The £77m makeover is due to complete in 2028. The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has unveiled plans for a £77m renovation, due to complete in 2028.

The Rubin Observatory released its first batch of images on June 23, 2025 as it had scanned the night skies only a few days prior, finding over 2,000 asteroids in the process.

The Rubin Observatory marks the beginning of a new era in cosmic research. Astronomers will only need high-speed networks, cloud computing, and AI algorithms to perform research anytime, anywhere.

Astronomers love data, but no one has that kind of time in a day. So each individual scientist (amateurs can sign up, too) must first enroll with the Rubin Observatory’s so-called alert brokers ...

After over 20 years in the making, the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile released its first images on Monday, revealing stunning views of the universe and highlighting its powerful abilities. The ...

In Late June of 2025, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Rubin) finally released its first images of dazzling stars, thousands of asteroids, and millions of galaxies. With the largest digital ...

The Rubin Observatory is a great example of such a new tool. The observatory has a large main mirror, about 8 meters in diameter. The design of that mirror, however, is unique.

On July 3, astronomers at Al Khatim Observatory captured the faint comet —currently at magnitude 17.5—over a 45-minute session, producing 45 long-exposure images. While the stars appear as streaks in ...

New asteroids discoved by observatory In about 10 hours of observations, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system, including seven near ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed ...