A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...

Far from being quiet, frozen backwaters, the icy moons of the outer solar system are starting to look like some of the most ...

Space astronomy is under threat from ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites, scientists warn - Some satellites will soon have 96% ...

Recent research challenges the prevailing theory that hot Jupiters (gas giants orbiting close to their stars) form through a disruptive process that prevents the existence of smaller planets in the ...

LAS VEGAS -- September 6, 2024 -- The origins of aptly named supermassive black holes – which can weigh in at more than a million times the mass of the sun and reside in the center of most galaxies – ...

A new study provides evidence that SpaceX Starlink satellites are emitting electromagnetic radiation in orbit — and this has the potential to disrupt astronomical observations. “This study represents ...

As SpaceX, Amazon, and others vie for supremacy in the race to establish constellations of communications satellites, the superhighway used by low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is becoming dangerously ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

A team of scientists using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the Netherlands has observed radio waves that carry the distinct signatures of aurorae, caused by the interaction between ...

A raw Hubble image shows a satellite streak. (NASA / ESA / STScI / Kruk et al. / Nature) An analysis of more than 100,000 images from the Hubble Space Telescope, conducted with the aid of artificial ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had both positive and negative impacts on astronomy research, where overall the number of research papers being produced increased, but the number of new or junior ...

Astronomers have gained a fresh understanding of the Milky Way’s formation following an analysis of nearly a quarter of a million stars among the many billions that make up our home galaxy. The ...