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

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

Amy Cotter, a weather observer and education specialist at the Mount Washington Observatory, discusses summit conditions amid a May nor'easter, including wind gusts, temperatures and snowfall ...

Scientists at the Mount Washington Observatory said recent freezing rain and glaze ice conditions made Monday a perfect day to go skating at the summit. The observatory shared these photos of ...

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

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 ...

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

Trump science cuts may close WA LIGO observatory that confirmed theory of relativity. Life June 2, 2025. Washington State University shock physics researchers to continue overseeing national lab ...

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 ...

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.

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...