Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies — and increasingly by commercial companies — are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade ...

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

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

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

For nearly as long as we've walked the Earth, humans have tried to make sense of the stars. Now, three new sky-gazing tools are poised to tell us even more. Each will play a unique role in deciphering ...

At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) using a new Dutch invention — the telescope. In the era when William Shakespeare ...

Orbiting observatories were supposed to escape the glow and clutter that plague ground-based astronomy, but the next ...

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

So far, the mobile astronomy column has been all about apps. But we cover astronomy gadgets, too — and at the top of that list are computerized GOTO telescopes. In this column, we'll cover how they ...

Space is filling up with satellites, and that’s bad news for astronomy. Researchers already knew that artificial satellites ...

Using an orbiting radio-astronomy satellite combined with 15 ground-based radio telescopes, astronomers have made the highest-resolution astronomical image yet, revealing new insights about a gorging ...

The United Kingdom is a terrible place to use a telescope, at least if you consider the weather. There might be one clear night a week, or worse. So it probably takes a certain amount of bravery for ...