A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble.

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

Research finds Amazon’s LEO internet satellites can disrupt ground- and space-based astronomical observations due to brightness levels exceeding IAU recommendations.

China’s Xuntian space telescope completed a full performance simulation, confirming operational readiness for its planned ...

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...

The next great space observatory took a step closer this week when ESA signed the contract with Arianespace that will see the James Webb Space Telescope launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's ...

Commercial satellites in orbit, which are largely owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, are blocking images of the cosmos taken from both the ground and in space. A study released by Nature earlier this month ...

The Core And Filament Formation/Evolution In Natal Environments (CAFFEINE) survey is an "astronomer's best friend," according to the European Southern Observatory.

In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74's staff, led by Frank Drake, ...