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.

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

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

Credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser/Cover Images Astronomers have warned that Elon Musk and others’ plans to put millions ...

Experts warn Elon Musk's satellites could 'end astronomy' and 'light up the night sky’. Astronomers have warned that Elon ...

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

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The plans to swarm Earth with huge, extremely bright satellites represent an “existential threat” to telescopes viewing the ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

A new study has issued a warning regarding the companies’ competing efforts to launch 1.7 million satellites into Earth’s ...

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