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

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

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

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

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

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.

The observatory’s software will automatically compare new images with older ones and generate an estimated 10 million alerts ...

In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

A mysterious new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was discovered in July. It turns out that wasn't the first time our ...

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

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday (June 23) — and included a special asteroid bonus.