Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...
Advanced algorithms speed up the search for small solar system objects, and astronomers say there's much more to come.
Astronomers have confirmed a new planet in one of the youngest solar systems ever found, thanks to University of Arizona ...
A single early dataset from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has revealed more than 11,000 new asteroids, marking one of the ...
Using preliminary data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, scientists have discovered over 11,000 new asteroids. The data ...
Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disk around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory isn’t even a year old, but it’s already giving astronomers (arguably pleasant) insomnia with ...
This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...
A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...
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For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the Sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past. The resulting ...