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If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Rubin Observatory's highly anticipated first image release conference — and they each represented an asteroid that had just been discovered. It felt like witnessing something hugely profound, and ...

In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...