Named for famed astronomer Vera Rubin, best known for discovering evidence of dark matter, the observatory will spend the next 10 years observing and collecting data on the southern night sky in ...

The Rubin telescope, featuring a 3,200-megapixel camera, promises to see more galaxies than ever seen before, as well as supernovas, comets and millions of asteroids. Sometime in the months ahead ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

Rubin's power lies in the details Hours before the release of the main images above at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) on Monday (June 23), the Rubin team released several smaller "preview" images that are ...

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday (June 23) — and included a special asteroid bonus.

The Rubin Observatory released several videos to highlight the strengths of the new telescope, which captures images that are too enormous to meaningfully grasp with our perception, Ivezić ...

Rubin’s first glimpse of the firmament is predictably bursting with galaxies and stars. But the resolution, breadth, and depth of the images have taken astronomers aback.

Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer for whom the new observatory is named, circa 1985. In the 1970s, she and a colleague uncovered strong evidence for the existence of dark matter. Mark Godfrey/AIP ...

Around then, her parents introduced her to Robert Rubin. They began dating and were married in August of 1948—what many assumed was the end to Rubin’s astronomy career.

Rubin Observatory's LSST is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fill in the missing pieces of our solar system, said Mario Juric, a member of the Sorcha team and a UW professor of Astronomy.

Lawrence Rubin's cremains, mistakenly believed to be buried with his first wife, were recently discovered in St. Ignace. Rubin, instrumental in the Mackinac Bridge's construction, will now be ...

At Nvidia's GTC conference this week, it showed off two new AI chip designs: Vera Rubin and Feynman. These AI-first processors are designed to be the future of AI and robotics in 2027 and 2028.