Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

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By Lynsey Chutel Here are some key events to look forward to in space and astronomy in the year ahead. By Michael Roston and Katrina Miller Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System ...

From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

The company has been working with an observatory and the US National Science Foundation to study the effects of lowering its ...

The company will also look at making design additions to its BlueBird satellites to prevent them from reflecting too much ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

In new research, we have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf, likely in a binary orbit with a white dwarf ...

Another significant lunar first came later in the year when China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully returned samples back to ...

Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...

Jan. 3, 2025 — Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also ... Scientists Pin Down the ...