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“The best estimates suggest Rubin should detect between 5 and 50 ISOs over its 10 year survey, stemming from the ...
From an interstellar comet to breathtaking auroras and from brand-new rockets to iconic space telescopes, here are some of our favorite images from the cosmos in 2025 ...
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile and was quickly ...
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On November 6, NASA’s Europa Clipper utilized its Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS) to capture the comet over a span of seven hours. This sophisticated instrument plays a crucial role in ...
A heritage of dark sky preservation means residents of Flagstaff welcome the season’s longer nights with prolonged views of the stars. An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new ...
The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.