The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years ...

“All the Fermi Paradox tells you is that civilizations are rare. It doesn’t tell you why they’re rare,” says Ian Crawford, a ...

Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned. In recent years, companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX have launched thousands of new ...

A rare confluence of factors makes the Atacama an ideal home for some of the world’s biggest astronomical projects – dry ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

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

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Deployment of tens of thousands of communication satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) is creating a diffuse veil of light ...

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

Only 70 light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A hosts one of astronomy’s strangest mysteries. Around it swirls ...