Moons may seem like quiet companions to the planets, but many of them are worlds every bit as fascinating as the planets themselves. Some are covered in oceans, some erupt with lava, and others hide ...

DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has launched a real-time alert system, capable of issuing up to 800,000 alerts per night, to track asteroids and exploding stars.

The Rubin Observatory’s real-time alert system can detect millions of cosmic events per night, from asteroids to supernovae, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially activated its automated alert system, to explore and detect the object movements in space. The system went live on February 24 and generated ...

Rubin Observatory begins sending hundreds of thousands of nightly alerts as it prepares for its 10-year sky survey, tracking supernovae, asteroids, galaxies and other changing objects in near real ...

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

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

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory now automatically sends out alerts when something changes in the night sky. In the first night, there were 800,000.

Astronomers across the world received 800,000 alerts from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just one night, informing them of any new observations or changes in one region of the universe. The ...

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 ...

This week, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issued its first real-time sky alerts, inaugurating a monitoring system set to transform how we study the universe.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.