Amid concerns about maintaining dark and quiet skies for astronomy, the FCC said regulating the light impacts of satellites ...

For over 75 years, Peninsula Astronomical Society has drawn amateur astronomers, curious newcomers and those prone to tilting their heads at the night sky in wonder.

Let the science begin: The world’s first commercial space telescope is up and running. On July 6, Blue Skies Space delivered data from its Mauve satellite to the international roster of universities ...

The night sky may soon acquire a switch. A California startup plans to send an enormous, steerable mirror into orbit and use it to bounce sunlight onto selected patches of Earth after sunset. On July ...

For six days in June, high school students from New Mexico, North Carolina and Minnesota were part of the first ever astrophysics summer camp at the University of Minnesota Morris. The Kapemni ...

How do black holes at the centers of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and ...

The team refers to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as a 10-year-long movie of the universe, and they're right. The ...

The FCC approved a satellite to test the ability to reflect sunlight into nighttime regions, a project criticized by ...

Interstellar asteroid Oumuamua arriving from Pleiades star cluster. Oumuamua 3D model: Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesse According to NASA, ‘Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object to visit our solar ...

Princeton researchers have played a major role in developing software pipelines to process the massive amounts of data the ...

AAAS: "Proposed new satellite fleets could overwhelm the night sky." Orbiting data centers + sunlight reflectors would ...

Cropped image of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observation of comet 3I/ATLAS with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...