Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden celestial objects.

A 9th planet in our solar system might be found — and no, it’s not Pluto - Is there another planet out there? Researchers say ...

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

“With the LSST catalog of solar system objects, our work shows that it will be like going from black-and-white television to brilliant color,” said Joe Murtagh, a doctoral student at Queen’s ...

Beyond just finding these new small bodies, Rubin Observatory will observe them multiple times using different optical filters, revealing their surface colors. Past solar system surveys typically ...

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life ... "We knew JWST could measure colors of the outer planets in directly imaged systems. We have been waiting ...

Colors are applied to filters from Webb’s ... its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has ...