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State lawmakers talk budget, data center regulation at end-of-session town hall

Four weeks after the 104th Illinois General Assembly adjourned in Springfield, state legislators hosted an end-of-session ...

‘The greatest cosmic movie ever made’: Historic telescope kicks off an unprecedented survey

The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun an 10-year survey to create a new inventory of our solar system and the Milky Way, and ...

XMM-Newton and Chandra help revise distance to Milky Way's outer spiral arms

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy, the Milky ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...

Humanity’s Biggest-Ever Camera Begins 10-Year Time-Lapse Of The Cosmos

The Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun a 10-year sky survey, using the world’s largest digital camera to find asteroids, supernovae and anything else that moves.

NASA Launches Daring Robotic Rescue Mission to Save Falling Swift Telescope

NASA is preparing a robotic rescue mission to boost the falling Swift telescope, test satellite servicing, and avoid a costly ...
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The growing number of satellites in orbit could soon make telescopes obsolete: 'Catastrophic'

If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the ...