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

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

The 51-year-old India-born astronomer first lived in Tucson from 1983 to 1985, while working at Kitt Peak. He returned in 1997 after a stretch in Baltimore at the Space Telescope Science Institute ...

Astronomers investigate stellar environments and their radiation, examining how dying stars synthesize solids in their outer envelopes. Quantum chemists compute the structural and spectroscopic ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a sneak peak of some of the images it is unveiling, the first set of space images from ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...