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.

Some observatories that used to be dark and remote are now adjacent to bright urban centers. And sending all telescopes into ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

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

On June 25, 2025, an extraordinary sight unfolded over the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth. A rare snowfall ...

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

The SOAR Telescope sits on the peak of Cerro Pachón, part of the Chilean Andes mountain range. Recently, a rare winter storm swept across the Atacama desert, bringing snow to the driest place on Earth ...

A hike along Switzerland’s Aletsch offers escape from the summer heat — but comes with a poignant sense of time running out ...

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

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

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at an altitude of 2,682 meters, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to change ...