Astronomer Vera Rubin spent much of her career at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. She's best known for convincing the world that dark matter exists.

National Science Foundation and Department of Energy will host a full reveal event streaming on the agency's YouTube channel. Live watch parties are also taking place all over the world. Named for ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is perched on a mountain in northern Chile in the foothills of the Andes – a location astronomers say is ideal for observing the skies. The observatory’s main objective ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that most of the ...

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Vera Rubin, M.S. ’51, the pioneering astronomer whose groundbreaking research on galaxy rotation rates provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter, will be honored on a U.S. Quarter as part ...

Stargazers are about to get a glimpse of the universe like never before when the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils its first images. The powerful observatory under construction for years in Chile ...