Kneijnsberg honors the Dutch scientist and inventor Christiaan Huygens with a brilliant twist on an automatic Day-Date ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

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The first mind-bending images taken by the observatory were released today in the tradition of “first light,” a new ...

The first test images from a groundbreaking observatory named for trailblazing astronomer Vera Rubin have captured the light from millions of distant stars and galaxies on an unprecedented scale and ...

The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has shared its initial images. These images showcase cosmic wonders like the Trifid and ...

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

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