In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...
With data collected months before its main survey is due to begin, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is already upending what we ...
Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every ...
Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...
Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...
An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of ...
Other than fictional representations, like Harry Vanderspeigle in SYFY and USA Network's Resident Alien (now streaming on Peacock), as far as we know, life has only ever arisen here on Earth. But the ...