Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial megaconstellation in more detail.

Astronomers have captured their clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion, potentially ending a search that lasted about 100 years. The surprisingly massive hidden star could help ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - the first space observatory named for a woman - is poised to become one of ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a previously undetected giant planet tucked inside Beta ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 26: Catch Barnard's star A partial eclipse of the Moon occurs tonight, following August 12th's total eclipse of the ...

But radio noise. The pristine nature of the lunar environment provides the absolute cleanest, purest, silent places in the local solar system for radio astronomy. Radio observatories dot the world, ...

Data access, or the availability of new and archival data for use by other scientists and the public, is key to scientific advancement. How data is presented, searched, and formatted determines ...

To make the wave detectable we would have to have a very long ruler, and because the change even then will be small, far ...

As the full Moon sets, the Sun is about to rise on the opposite horizon. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) has already closed its eyes after a long night of observations. The extraordinary quality of ...

While technically all of these events will happen, the extent of their visibility and significance have been inflated in ...