Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover 2.85 million previously undetected objects in the solar system in its first year of ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

If you're lucky, when you look up at the night sky, you'll see thousands and thousands of points of light. These lights each ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.