Rubin Observatory in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile. Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the Dark Matter ...
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Astronomers find interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS hiding in images taken before its official discovery
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope ...
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The world’s newest mega-telescope just opened its eye and captured millions of galaxies in a single shot — beginning a decade-long movie of the night sky
On the night of June 23, 2025, a camera the size of a small car blinked open atop a Chilean mountain and swallowed a patch of ...
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I explored the $1 billion telescope
In this video, we explore the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the most advanced telescope on Earth, which cost over $1 billion and ...
Astronomers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney published the discovery on May 4, 2026, in the Monthly ...
An interstellar comet that has captivated astronomers this year narrowly missed becoming the first object named after the ...
The mere mention of AI may make some people want to run for the hills, but when it comes to space exploration, it’s an ...
A rare supernova appeared five times in the sky, giving scientists a new way to measure how fast the universe is expanding ...
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Breakthrough Prize 2026 awards over $18 million for discoveries across space, physics and more
The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.
NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s JUICE captured opposite sides of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at the same time, revealing strange chemistry inside it.
This decline is largely due to the fact that time is a finite resource and so much of it is occupied with administrative burdens, complex paperwork and fragmented data systems — longtime ...
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