Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have uncovered new insights about 2024 YR4. This is an Earth-crossing ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers spotted 139 new objects in our solar system in orbit beyond Neptune.

Exploration of the outer solar system may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO). When this gigantic telescope opens its eye later in 2025, it begins a decade-long survey of the ever ...

Given the typical orbit of an observatory about L2, the observational baseline of ~1.5 × 10⁶ km between L2 and Earth results in an instantaneous parallax of ~10″–100″, even for the most distant of ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...