Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

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Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

New findings about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal its surprising size, possible thick disk origin, and what makes it ...

Astronomers continue to track Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third-ever discovered interstellar object, passing through our solar system ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an unexpectedly complex and dynamic filamentary network within a very-high-velocity cloud ...

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just ...