"We can outdo two centuries of effort in just a couple of years." It was weirdly emotional on Monday (June 23) as several grainy white specks streaked across my computer screen while ambient rhythms ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang visited the Vera C. Rubin ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Rubin Observatory could be a game-changer for asteroid studies. These are some of the over ...