In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

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Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

The asteroid, discovered using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, is one of 19 large fast-rotating asteroids found with ...

Among the first finds from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the discovery hints at a population of exceptionally strong ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

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