The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is alarmed by the threat to ground-based astronomy posed by proposals put forward by ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers, who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed constellation would severely impair observations.

When Ukrainian forces retook the site of the Braude Radio Astronomy Observatory in September 2022 after forcing a Russian ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...

War Machine imagines a machine arriving from space. Real astronomy has detected interstellar visitors like ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS.

After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

New supercomputer simulations reveal Enceladus loses 20-40% less material through its plumes than previously estimated, suggesting its subsurface ocean is more stable. This revised understanding, ...