Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy.

Citation: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will help astronomers investigate dark matter, continuing the legacy of its namesake (2025, June 24) ...

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff will dedicate a memorial to astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. on Saturday, August 15. Almost 12 years ago -- in September, 1997 -- it was Phoenix NewTimes that shocked ...

The Rubin Observatory, which is named after the late astronomer Vera Rubin, is just beginning a 10-year campaign to survey the heavens after more than two decades of planning and construction.

Albert E. Whitford, an acclaimed astronomer, former director of the University of California’s Lick Observatory, and a professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, died on ...

In 1833, Astronomer Royal John Pond installed the Greenwich Time Ball on the observatory roof, a visual signal of the time that nearby sailors could use to sync their chronometers.