Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover 2.85 million previously undetected objects in the solar system in its first year of ...

First look images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, set to be unveiled June 23, will be a promising addition to astronomy ...

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

If you're lucky, when you look up at the night sky, you'll see thousands and thousands of points of light. These lights each ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

One of the ENTs studied in this work, named Gaia18cdj, released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.