Outer space is my Roman Empire: I am on some level obsessing about it whenever I have a free moment. I will devour true stories of discovery and space travel or mind-bending concoctions of science ...

The university’s critical contribution allows the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to fulfill its mission as a high-tech research tool that is revolutionizing how we explore worlds beyond our own.

Growing up, I pored over the black-and-white images in the Vogue photographer Irving Penn’s second book, “ Worlds in a Small ...