Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future ...

Meet the interns chasing weather extremes at Mount Washington Observatory ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

University of Washington scientists have worked for years to help bring the Vera C. Rubin Observatory online so it can begin ...

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 University of Washington was among the founding members of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, whose discoveries are ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

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, ...