The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

South Africa's large radio telescope MeerKAT consists of 64 satellite dishes, each 13.5 meters in diameter, distributed over an area of up to 8 km in the Karoo region.

A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

I think it’s 3,000 megapixels.” Nataf compares the observatory’s camera to the one onboard the celebrated Webb Space Telescope, which was placed in orbit in 2021.

The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) announced on Tuesday that its MeerKAT radio telescope array had for the first time, and successfully, participated in a regular international ...