Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

Vera Rubin, affectionately known as the “Mother of Dark Matter,” earned her moniker through groundbreaking research on the elusive substance that makes up a significant portion of the universe.

It is what we cannot see, however, that will forever remind us of astronomer Vera Rubin. Rubin is best known for confirming the existence of dark matter and, along the way, serving as an advocate ...

(Main) An illustration shows the Vera C. Rubin observatory ... to the prevailing cold dark matter model. | Credit: NASA/ LAMBDA Archive / WMAP Science Team Rubin and the LSST could help resolve ...

Donald Trump signed a congressional act naming a federally funded observatory after the late astronomer Vera Rubin. The act celebrated her landmark research on dark matter — the invisible ...

Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance that makes up most of the universe’s mass. Scientists can’t see it directly, ...

Kavli IPMU researchers are part of an international team that has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive ...

"The large volume of data from Rubin will give us a sample of all kinds of Type Ia supernovas at a range of distances and in many different types of galaxies." The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will ...

Vera Rubin, American astronomer who established the presence of dark matter in galaxies, measures spectra in the 1970s. | Credit: Vera Rubin/American Museum of Natural History He declined to ...