The Rubin Observatory issues rapid alerts for changing celestial objects, enabling global scientists to detect supernovae, asteroids, and variable stars within minutes of observation.

Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful ...

Wake up, astronomers—the universe is calling. The astronomical observatory equipped with world’s largest camera hit a key ...

Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 cosmic changes in one night, launching its 10-year mission to create a real-time movie of ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky.

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

A software system has begun sending out alerts about moving asteroids, exploding stars and other phenomena detected by the Rubin Observatory.

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

During the course of this survey, astronomers around the globe will seek to answer some of the most pressing questions about ...

Astronomers will receive alerts about celestial events within minutes of detection.

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

Named for the pioneering astrophysicist Vera C. Rubin, whose work confirmed the existence of dark matter, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory stands as one of the most ambitious ground-based telescopes ever ...