Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

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 ...

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 NASA study predicts that 96% of the images from the ARRAKIHS mission will be contaminated by the light from the more than ...

A long-exposure image of the Orion Nebula with a total exposure time of 208 minutes showing satellite trails in mid-December 2019. Credit: A. H. Abolfath/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA WASHINGTON — Legislation ...

The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves ...

Astronomy might be the last realm one might expect to be impacted by global climate warming. But now researchers say that even large ground-based optical observatories are suffering from the ...

A mysterious and intensely fierce environment resides in the centers of galaxies. Objects orbiting the galactic centers are always subject to falling into the trap of the accretion disks or event ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...