We discuss future directions of this approach, including the possible roles of crowdsourcing and the scalability of machine learning to future surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honour Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Rubin's work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark matter ...

NASA awarded SpaceX a $100 million contract to launch a new satellite that could monitor extraterrestrial threats to the Earth.