I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing ...

Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids.

Currently in its testing phase, the partial commissioning of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is already yielding ...

This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

Rubin Observatory finds 11,000 new asteroids in early data, including near-Earth and distant objects, before its main 10-year ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...

After more than 20 years of planning and construction, astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory today — and also registered hundreds of the first ...

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Scientists have seemingly settled long-standing arguments about whether the components of Earth originated from the inner or ...

A 4.6-billion-year journey into the deep freeze -- Comets and asteroids on earth -- Shooting stars and space dust -- Water and life on earth and in space -- Taking the science to space -- The Stardust ...