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

A new summer exhibition in the First Floor Gallery of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library explores the ...

The International Space Station's first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary are headed back to Earth. Their SpaceX capsule undocked from the orbiting lab on Monday, targeting a splashdown in the ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Astronomers love data, but no one has that kind of time in a day. So each individual scientist (amateurs can sign up, too) must first enroll with the Rubin Observatory’s so-called alert brokers.

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

UI astronomer hopes new telescope will unlock some universal mysteries by Matt Kelley | Jun 27, 2025 The Trifid nebula (top right) and the Lagoon nebula (Image from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory) ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

The team behind the long-awaited Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile published their first images this week, revealing breathtaking views of distant galaxies.

The Rubin Observatory released its first batch of images on June 23, 2025 as it had scanned the night skies only a few days prior, finding over 2,000 asteroids in the process.