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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope scans the heavens to start its decade-long exploration in the search for dark matter.

A compilation of various images from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by dark matter.

NASA's Lunar Electric Rover was tested in Arizona's rugged desert terrain to simulate lunar exploration and refine designs for future missions.

A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 TF, skimmed past Earth closer than many satellites and was photographed by the Catalina Sky Survey and ESA's planetary defense programs.

A recent view from Hubble shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, where newborn stars sculpt dense gas and dust.

To keep the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at peak performance, ESO engineers carefully recoat its enormous mirrors.

As NASA's ER-2 aircraft takes flight over the American Southwest, the GEMx mission is using high-altitude hyperspectral imaging to uncover Earth's hidden mineral resources

A new rainbow spectrum from the STELES instrument on Chile's SOAR Telescope captures Eta Carinae in unprecedented detail.

Two centuries after its completion, the Erie canal is celebrated from space, with NASA satellite imagery showing the engineering feat of this structure.

A new image from NOIRLab shows telescopes on two Chilean peaks in the Atacama Desert.