In about 10 hours of observations, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system, including seven near-Earth asteroids (which pose no danger).

Early in his career, Karl Jakobs worked on physics experiments that had a few hundred collaborators and operated for roughly a decade. “In the 1980s and 1990s, the experiments were smaller, and there ...

Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: Stars are dying; comets are flying; and supermassive black holes are growing ever more ...

Before light from distant stars can reach telescopes on Earth, it must travel through space, and its path is not always a straight one. Massive objects like the sun warp space around them. When light ...