The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time to investigate mysteries like the ...

Breathtaking celestial photographs, most recently from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capture a beauty beyond terrestrial ...

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

The institution joins a global alliance supporting an ambitious 10-year mission to create the most detailed cosmic survey in ...

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images as it begins its 10-year mission conducting the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The LSST will revolutionize astronomy with one ...

Trifid and Lagoon nebulas This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time.

Vera Rubin (neé Connor), was born July 23, 1928, in Philadelphia. She began working in astronomy at a time when no woman had worked inside the Palomar Observatory, a world-renowned research ...

Vera Rubin, M.S. ’51, a pioneering astronomer in research on galaxy rotation rates, will be honored on a U.S. Quarter as part of the 2025 American Women Quarters Program.

PRINCETON, N.J. — Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died, her son said Monday. She was 88. Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at P… ...

December 26, 2016 / 5:59 PM EST / CBS/AP PRINCETON, N.J. — Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of “dark matter” in the universe, has died. She was 88.