Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

A new study finds that, with the immense quantity of satellites that hurtle in Earth's orbit today, the first smashup would ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on ...

While NASA's James Webb Telescope and other instruments have already spotted abundant water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth flyby tonight at 1 a.m. EST, NASA confirms. Learn when and how to watch ...

Study using radio telescope data finds most geostationary satellites emit little unintended radio interference in frequencies used for astronomy ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly by our planet at a safe distance of 1.8 astronomical units (roughly 167 million miles or ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

“With this new machine-learning tool, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope can help scientists build a more accurate 3-D map ...