The Latest Breaking News from Vera Rubin

When asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’

The Rubin Observatory will eventually hold the world's largest digital camera. It's therefore a good sign it has aced its first image test.

As a new play examines the work of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, we celebrate the women whose crucial discoveries were ignored or suppressed

At Computex 2024 Nvidia has announced that the Rubin GPU architecture will be the successor to Blackwell. Rubin GPUs are set to splashdown in 2026, bringing support for 8-Hi HBM4 stacks, and will be followed up with Rubin Ultra GPUs, supporting 12-Hi HBM4 stacks. A powerful new CPU called Vera…

The largest camera ever built for astronomy arrived in Chile, where it will be installed atop Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope.

Nvidia is reportedly underway on a future generation of AI-focused GPUs, codenamed Rubin, but who are they really for?

Nvidia's next GPU series, Rubin, could end up improving AI features from the Blackwell series while lowering its power consumption.

Dark matter appears to be more complex than we thought: a new scientific approach is trying to get to the bottom of the cold dark matter concept. The post New Scientific Data Shows That Dark Matter Is Even Stranger Than We Thought first appeared on Bored Panda.

The 3,200-megapixel LSST camera, build for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is completed. It will create "the greatest movie of all time" to crack the mystery of dark energy.

Dark matter is the mysterious substance that accounts for most of the universe's mass, but it doesn't interact with light, making it effectively invisible. So how do astronomers know dark matter exists?

Scientists know very little about the matter that makes up the galaxies in the Universe. About 20% of the matter in galaxies is visible or baryonic: subatomic particles like protons, neutrons and electrons. The other 80%, referred to as “dark matter”, remains mysterious and unseen.