Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will create the most comprehensive record of the universe to date.

Legacy Survey of Space and Time is expected to find millions of asteroids and perhaps shed light on dark matter and dark energy, with an assist from University of Washington astronomers.

Over the next decade, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will scan each section of the sky about 800 times, building a record of ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman mission and Chile’s LSST camera map dark matter, dark energy and billions of galaxies over 10 years ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun an epic decade-long mission to create "the greatest cosmic movie ever made." ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of ...

Princeton researchers have played a major role in developing software pipelines to process the massive amounts of data the ...

Now that's deep.

After more than 20 years of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready for its grand opening, and the world is invited. The observatory in the foothills of the Chilean Andes ...

The Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera is about the size of a small car. (Credit: Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / AURA / F. Munoz) The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of the cosmos seems to be made of an invisible material astronomers call dark ...