No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

The Vera Rubin Observatory has cemented its status as a rising star, revealing unprecedented detail captured by the biggest ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

Quantum computing is a new way of computing that uses the strange rules of tiny particles to solve problems much faster than ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems CMO Joe Paluska discusses the strategic plan to commercialize fusion energy, the impact of AI on energy demand, and the 2027 goal to prove net energy gain.

"I remember when she was alive she kept asking when I was going to read her book. And I said, 'I'll read it. Don't worry.' And she said, 'well, I'm not going to be around forever.' Then eventually I ...

The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts.

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...