After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

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

They’re bright and blue — and a bit strange. They’re a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Astronomers have discovered a relatively cool and small exoplanet orbiting a nearby star, with a “year” of several months. The find offers a rare opportunity to study planets and solar systems like ...

Low Earth orbit is filling up with industrial-scale fleets of satellites, and the collateral damage is becoming impossible to ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

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

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

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Satellites reflect sunlight down to Earth, and some do so with such intensity it risks obscuring astronomers’ observations from ground-based telescopes. A paper in Nature suggests that the ...

SpaceX and optical astronomers have already butted heads over the high reflectivity of Starlink internet satellites, and now radio astronomers have their own beef with Elon Musk's aerospace firm.