The Griffith Observatory in California had a great view of the Mars-Moon occultation. See the Red Planet slip behind the moon ...

Sunspot AR3088 put on a striking display of solar activity, unleashing multiple M-class flares as it rotated across and out of view of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This time-lapse, ...

Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place. It's called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and even though it’s located in Chile, it's funded and operated by the U.S. government. In a ...

Perched high on a ridge in the South American Andes, a new observatory aims to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos and unravel some of the mysteries it holds. Featuring the world’s largest ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world’s most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images capture ...

The first test images from a groundbreaking observatory named for trailblazing astronomer Vera Rubin have captured the light from millions of distant stars and galaxies on an unprecedented scale — and ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images this week, something Brad talked about in his 3 Brilliant Minutes on Tuesday The state-of-the-art observatory sits on a ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is seen with its dome open during First Look observation activities in April 2025. M41, the Little Beehive Cluster, can be seen ...