Scientists narrow the search for dark matter using new galaxy simulations
Stellar streams have long been treated as relatively smooth structures whose gaps, kinks and spurs could reveal invisible…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…
Most Ambitious Sky Survey Ever Begins with Hungarian Scientists on the Team
High atop a mountain in Chile, under some of the world’s clearest, darkest skies, a new era of…
Apsidal Precession Finds 27 Dual-Sun Planet Candidates: Transit Method Missed Half of All Stars
A technique that planet hunters have never used at scale has found 27 candidate worlds orbiting binary star…
Newborn magnetar offers rare evidence of Einstein’s relativity in a stellar explosion
The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion…
World’s Largest Digital Camera Detected 800,000 Cosmic Changes Tuesday
View of Vera C. Rubin Observatory beneath the glittering band of the Milky Way. NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin…
Essay: From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space
GRANT TREMBLAY, of the Smithsonian Institution, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at…
15 Facts About New Space Discoveries In Case We All Need To Move There Someday
We learn more and more about our universe all the time, but there’s recently been a huge spike…
A Mysterious Warp at the Edge of the Solar System May Point to the Existence of a Hidden “Planet Y”
A strange tilt in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt has scientists wondering if the solar system…
The World’s Largest Camera Captures It’s First Images Of Space » TwistedSifter
Vera C. Rubin Observatory As technology improves by leaps and bounds, so does our understanding and glimpses into…
Vera Rubin Observatory Unveils First High-Res Images of 3I/ATLAS—Captured Days Before Astronomers Knew It Existed
The recent arrival of a mysterious new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, made headlines after astronomers initially spotted it in…