Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the aspiring astronomer to avoid science.

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Vera Rubin’s husband, Robert, a mathematician and physicist, died in 2008. “I think it’s no coincidence that the four children all ended up doing science,” Allan wrote in a family memoir.

Vera Rubin turned her attention to stars in the 1960s. Photo credit: Mark Godfrey, ... After graduating from Vassar, Vera married Robert Rubin and attended Cornell University, ...

Vera Rubin (left) and Nancy Grace Roman during the NASA-sponsored Women in Astronomy and Space Science 2009 meeting in Adelphi, Maryland. NASA, Jay Freidlander Changing your name is not a decision ...

Dozens of stories and anecdotes later, we headed to Rubin’s home not far from Chevy Chase, where both Vera and Robert Rubin, her husband, answered our questions. The couple finished each other ...

Vera Rubin measures spectra in this photo from the Noir Lab. Credit: Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Rubin’s captivation with the movement of objects in a dark night sky continued throughout her career.

Robert Joshua Rubin, 81, a mathematician and physicist who worked for 30 years at the old National Bureau of Standards and 10 more years at the National Institutes of Health, died of multiple ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will also provide unprecedented depth by observing the universe in six different optical bands, with wavelengths ranging from 320 to 1,060 nanometers.

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first glamour shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ...

As a woman, astrophysicist Vera Rubin had to fight just to get access to a telescope. What she saw when she did further rattled conventions: galaxies that were rotating more quickly than predicted ...