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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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

Vera Rubin’s work helped prove the existence of dark matter in the cosmos, shifting the way scientists study the universe in the 1970s. She published more than 100 scientific papers and carried ...

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

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 ...