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With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera Rubin Observatory could be about to ...
The spaceflight company released footage on Saturday showing the rocket’s upper stage -- called the Starship -- being moved toward the launchpad at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...
The launch from Florida's Space Coast was originally slated for Friday afternoon, but it's now scheduled to take place on ...
Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...
Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.
Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump ...
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
A team of researchers from NASA recently uncovered strong evidence for a rare and complex system of three icy space rocks orbiting one another in the Kuiper Belt. This remote region lies beyond ...
The project gets its name from the Kuiper Belt, a part of the solar system past the eight major planets. Kuiper has secured launches from various aerospace companies, including Blue Origin ...
The Kuiper Belt starts at 30 AU from the Sun and extends to about 50 AU. Some objects go even farther. Photo Credit: NASA NASA continues to study this icy region, revealing new secrets about our ...
Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected.