Scientists are rethinking Type 1a supernovas, hunting for "unknown unknowns" that could lead us to solving the puzzle of dark ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence and the Vera Rubin Observatory to investigate one of astronomy’s biggest ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place. It's called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and even though it’s ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

A powerful new observatory has unveiled its first images to the public, showing off what it can do as it gets ready to start its main mission: making a vivid time-lapse video of the night sky that ...

Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of the cosmos seems to be made of an invisible material astronomers call ...

This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

In this Laurels column, a professor is listed to the Time’s list of 100 most influential people, a faculty member receives an ...

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Samantha Thompson, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Everything in space – ...