NSF CAREER Award recognizes Indian American professor’s innovative approach to bridging human expertise and artificial AI ...

As part of the Kilonova Science project, anyone and everyone can search for exploding stars. Now the first major discovery ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature ’s photo team.

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

With the recent release of its first images, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is one giant step closer to launching its Legacy Survey of Space and ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory debuted on June 23, 2025. Scientists at Duke and across the world await the groundbreaking data it will come to collect.

Building Rubin Observatory in Chile spanned three decades and as many continents. Important support came from right here in Wisconsin.