RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.

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Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

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Sea turtles navigate using Earth's magnetic field like a GPS. Scientists found they learn and remember magnetic locations.

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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

Discover the extraordinary Einstein ring discovered by the Euclid space telescope. A perfect ring of light encircling galaxy ...

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