The first 18 satellites of a planned Chinese mega constellation are brighter than all but 500 stars in the sky, raising fears ...

My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly ...

Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you're ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a distant cosmic explosion that erupted in the early universe called "supernova ...

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

There’s nothing quite like the beauty of a spectacular night sky,” says Atlanta astronomer Ed Albin. He’s lucky enough to see one a few times a month at the Deerlick Astronomy Village in Taliaferro ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

NASA announced that two space probes proposed by University of Maryland astronomers have advanced to the next round of ...

It sports a glowing bar in its core, majestically winding spiral arms, and clouds of dark dust across it. Numerous glowing, ...

The comet will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere in the evening, just after sunset, when it is low in the southwestern ...

An algorithm that detects streaks of light in telescope images could help to counter a growing threat to astronomy.

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