With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep,” remarked Anais Möller, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

I have to catch my breath as we climb the stairs inside the dome of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It is cool and quiet and enormous, a bit like a cathedral – until the entire dome booms into ...

Vera Rubin, remarks quoted in National Science Foundation press release, 1996. Vera C. Rubin, “A Brief History of Dark Matter,” Physics Today 49, no. 12 (December 1996): 40–46. Related Reading: ...