ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. During his first presidential term, Donald Trump signed ...

Rubin was born Vera Cooper on July 23, 1928, in Philadelphia. At age 10, she moved with her family to Washington, D.C. There, she stared out her bedroom window (she said you could still see the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory recently achieved a significant milestone in its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a groundbreaking 10-year initiative funded by the US National Science ...