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

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

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

The biggest and best movie of the universe began production this week—at the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, rather than in Hollywood. Rubin will look for undiscovered asteroids (including ...

(via Melody Sheep) In 2018 I released Timelapse of the Entire Universe, an experimental video that compressed all of time into a 10 minute scale, pieced together from a spectrum of different visual ...

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space ...

What if time doesn't actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny "mini ...

Every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly detailed images of the southern sky, stitching together a time-lapse panorama of ...

Conversely, Earth also orbits the sun on an ellipse, so when our planet is at aphelion (its greatest solar distance), our ...

Thirty-one newly discovered ancient quasars are giving scientists their clearest view yet of the universe's earliest giant ...

It is a basic fact in modern astrophysics that we don’t know what most of the universe is made of. The familiar objects around us that are made of matter and energy — people, planets, stars — account ...