PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- The use of Global Positioning System technology is so widespread that its availability is almost taken for granted. However, there may come a time when using GPS is not an ...

Satellite mega constellations promise faster connectivity but threaten astronomy, as thousands of satellites brighten skies, ...

After more than six months of COVID-related closures, observational astronomy is largely getting back to work. Many of the world’s biggest telescopes have reopened their domes in recent weeks, ...

Astronomers have used new capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to open a whole new realm of research into how galaxies evolve and interact with their ...

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The course provides project-based practical experience in observational astronomy. Guided by faculty, students will make their own astronomical investigations using telescoped, cameras, and ...

When the Federal Communications Commission approved Amazon’s plans for the Kuiper constellation, a plan to put 3,236 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in orbit, the astronomy world raised a collective ...

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 ...

The 45th Planetarium Programme — Two Small Pieces of Glass — was launched at the B.M. Birla Planetarium, Periyar Science and Technology Centre, on March 31. Dr. M.P. Pillai, Director, National ...

People have long thought of astronomy as the science of looking to the stars, but discoveries in the cosmos increasingly come from a different kind of observational power. Space can now be seen in ...