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The Trump administration has tapped a Harvard professor with controversial theories about aliens to lead a team of scientists ...

Plans for 1.7 million new satellites have astronomers sounding the alarm, with a new ESO study calling for a hard cap of 100,000.

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Science operations at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope will conclude Sept. 15 so it can be decommissioned, the ...

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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of ...