"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular are not going to take these threats lying down." ...

Nvidia is naming its next critical AI chip platform after Vera Rubin, an American astronomer. The company has never explained its naming convention, and hasn't emphasized the diversity aspect of ...

Dr. Vera Cooper Rubin has been awarded the honor through the American Women Quarters Program, which was launched in 2022 by ...

The pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin is known globally for discovering powerful evidence of dark matter in the universe. But Rubin, who died Sunday at age 88, is also renowned for her passionate ...

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 ...

Rubin’s work at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, starting in the 1960s, led to the discovery of dark matter. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory on a mountaintop in Chile, where the skies ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin photographed in her office at Carnegie Institution of Washington on January 14, 2010. Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images It’s been less than a month since ...

The National Science Foundation’s newest facility, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is named after the astronomer credited with the first evidence of dark matter.

Dr. Vera Rubin, a Cornell graduate whose research confirmed the existence of dark matter, will be featured on a U.S. quarter ...