This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

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Tony Tyson, a professor at UC Davis, has been named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2026.

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Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...

Advanced algorithms speed up the search for small solar system objects, and astronomers say there's much more to come.

Thirty years ago, astronomer Tony Tyson had the vision to suggest this intriguing path, and the persistence to build ...

At the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Meredith Rawls makes sure reflected sunlight doesn’t ruin astronomical observations by the world’s newest sky-observing super-machine. Earlier this year, the $800 ...

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already discovered over 11,000 asteroids in just weeks, revealing a faster way to map our Solar System.

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...

Wake up, astronomers—the universe is calling. The astronomical observatory equipped with world’s largest camera hit a key milestone on February 24, when a complex data-processing system pushed ...