Astronomers are urging limits on satellite launches after simulations showed some observatories could become effectively ...

If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the ...

Science operations at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope will conclude Sept. 15 so it can be decommissioned, University of ...

Jupiter has fascinated scientists for centuries, but every new mission reveals a world far stranger than anyone imagined.

NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

NASA on Friday launched a rocket into space to save one of its most iconic telescopes from falling to Earth. In a ...

NASA is attempting something it has never done before: a rescue mission for one of its own space telescopes.

For Sai-Dudoit, the day in 1843 that Great Britain and France signed an official proclamation recognizing the sovereignty of ...

The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope is one of thirteen working telescopes on the mountain’s summit and the third to be decommissioned.

NASA is marking the United States' 250th birthday with four striking red, white, and blue images of deep space from the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found methane, aerosols, and a tidal heat signature on WD 1856 b — a Jupiter-sized world ...