Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

As the night grows long and the winter solstice approaches, there’s a host of astronomical events to watch out for, including ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

The rapidly growing number of satellites is not only disturbing Earth-based astronomy, but also space telescopes. The ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

Hubble is far from the only space telescope affected, and future astronomy craft will likely fare much worse. According to ...