The Vera Rubin Observatory sits atop the mountain Cerro Pachón in northern Chile.

Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

The university’s critical contribution allows the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to fulfill its mission as a high-tech research tool that is revolutionizing how we explore worlds beyond our own.

Detailed photos from the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed that the recently discovered interstellar ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

A comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, with 3I short for "third interstellar," sparked immediate excitement on July 1 when it was ...

Scientists at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, broke ...

As astronomers rush to study a newly discovered comet from beyond our solar system, a powerful new observatory may turn rare ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its groundbreaking 10-year astronomy mission.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capturing the night sky “like never before.” At such a critical ...