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The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...
The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.
With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.
With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.
Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The Astronomical Journal (submitted to arXiv) , 2025 DOI: 10.3847 ...
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The discovery of dwarf planet 2017 OF201 hints at a 'population behind it with hundreds of objects possessing similar properties'. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images Scientists ..
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...
A new type of computer simulation predicts that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the solar system over the course of the coming decade.
In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...
37,000 trans-Neptunian objects, residents of the distant Kuiper Belt — nearly 10 times the current census — shedding light on Neptune’s past migration and the outer solar system’s history.