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On-sky engineering tests have begun at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory. After installing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky, a moment 20 years in the making.

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history.

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, to uncover the elusive substance.

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. A trio of new studies questions whether it is truly representative of other galaxies

New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a lead candidate for what makes our universe’s invisible mass.