In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

When astronomers talk about asteroid Apophis, the mood is a mix of fascination and unease. Discovered in 2004 and quickly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists and astronomers are racing to study only the third-ever known interstellar visitor to the solar system, but with a ...

On top of Cerro Pachón, a Chilean mountain that reaches more than 2600 metres above sea level, the air is thin. I have to catch my breath as we climb the stairs inside the dome of the Vera C. Rubin ...

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

With no light pollution nearby, the night skies around the Vera Rubin Observatory glow in brilliant colors in this timelapse photo. Astronomers are also using these telescopes to study dark energy as ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days. Reading time 6 minutes The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

The long-exposure image shows just how fast the Simonyi Survey Telescope moves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

Out in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the observatory has a clearer view thanks to no light pollution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Look event,hosted by the National Academies' Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and Astronomy, will be livestreamed from 11am-12:30pm ET on ...