But the movie is as much a celebration of the scientists who brought them home as the astronauts who kept their cool while ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

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A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

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Science: Backyard Astronomer. 3 minute read. TIME. December 24, 1945 12:00 AM GMT-5. E arly in the evening, as he steered his home-made telescope methodically across the western sky, Clarence ...

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Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.

The legacy of astronomer Vera C. Rubin, for whom the observatory was named, was not just the way her work revolutionized ...