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February 26, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmRubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a nightAsteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm…

November 26, 20252 min readChina’s Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Just Released Its First Results—And They’re PromisingHidden beneath the hills of southern China, the JUNO observatory shows…

November 8, 20252 min readRubin Observatory Discovers Surprise ‘Tail’ on Iconic GalaxyThe first image from the Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of…

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace…

At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is the world’s largest digital camera. About the size of a small car, it…