A new paper discusses the possible existence of an unseen planet in the outer solar system, the so-called "Planet X" or ...

In the early months of 2023, the astronomer Željko Ivezić found himself taking part in a highly unusual negotiation. Ivezić ...

The U.S. has been developing a powerful telescope connected to the world's largest digital camera. Once fully operational, the Vera Rubin Observatory will be able to produce a full image of the sky.

We have studied the skies for centuries, but we have only found two objects known to come from another star system. The first ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been developing in the Chilean high desert for more than 20 years. He was ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory, this new telescope in Chile, will be able to look at an enormous tile of the sky at one time - 40 times the size of the full moon. And so by going tile by tile over ...

Learn how Vera C. Rubin overcame adversity and helped researchers understand dark matter.

The Frontier supercomputer's calculations provide a new foundation for simulating the universe's conventional physics, but ...

Since 2018 the Zwicky Transient Facility, an international astronomical collaboration based at the Palomar Observatory in ...

As the 9th American institution to invest, Northwestern University expands the Giant Magellan Telescope international consortium to 15 members from the United States, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, ...