The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it.
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Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every...
Airplane-sized asteroid 2025 QD8 will come within roughly 136,000 miles (218,000 kilometers) of Earth on September 3.
Astronomers have constructed one of the most detailed images yet of Abell 3667, a giant galaxy cluster...
Gutting the National Science Foundation’s budget would prevent the agency from breaking ground on the Thirty Meter...
In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial...
The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday,...
The 2026 budget request states that NSF will operate only one of the two LIGO sites, drastically...
The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much...
The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will...
