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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes 13 billion light years away.

The first person to discover that dark matter played an important role in galaxies was astronomer Vera Rubin, who in the 1970s, noticed that the outer parts of local galaxies were rotating at ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?