Bright mirrors and a million satellites could wash out the night sky, so an ESO study caps safe orbits at 100,000 faint craft.

We might not have to go scorched Earth after all. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth might actually weather the fiery death of the sun that’s expected to engulf our neighbors, per a relieving study ...

"The public has not signed up for having an entirely transformed sky." ...

A revolutionary rapid-response system has allowed astronomers to observe a gamma-ray burst at millimeter and submillimeter ...

There are also concerns that huge amounts of space debris from satellites could increasingly crash into each other in a ...

The “Evening Star” Venus is near a bright zodiacal star on several evenings. Mars in beautiful the predawn star fields of Taurus. There are lunar escorts at both dusk and dawn. In the evenings this ...

From Manhattanhenge in New York City to the first meteor showers of the summer, here are the top astronomy events to mark on your calendar in July.

A blend of exposures showing all the satellites (and a few aircraft) recorded June 1-2, 2022, from Alberta, Canada, from where and when satellites are illuminated all night long and can be seen all ...

A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch more than 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have "devastating ...

A first-of-its-kind study measured the extent to which bright constellations affect astronomers’ view of the night sky, ...

The Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun a 10-year sky survey, using the world’s largest digital camera to find asteroids, supernovae and anything else that moves.

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...