When the sun sets and the lights go out, the sky comes alive in ways that feel almost magical. From desert horizons to ...

Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile has released its first images, showing off its unprecedented ability to peer into the dark ...

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

But it does have the world’s largest digital camera, which snaps super-high-resolution pictures. Rubin is able to photograph all of the sky every three to four days.

Perched high in the Chilean Andes, the observatory will take hundreds of images of the southern hemisphere sky, every night for 10 years. In doing so, it will create the most complete time-lapse ...

Sky View first launched its design combo on the 11.8-lb (5.4-kg) Sky View XL car camping tent, which uses a large, burly external A-frame pole structure.

Using this technology, researchers have obtained high-resolution images covering areas up to 124,274 miles (200,000 km) in diameter, which is approximately one-seventh of the sun's diameter.