Less than a decade ago, there were about 2,000 operational satellites orbiting Earth. Today there are more than 15,000.

In 2011, an amateur astronomer near Toronto, Adam Szewczyk, was going through star brightness charts at home when one caught ...

Einstein Probe detected an M dwarf flare on November 6, 2026, triggering a GCN alert confirmed by robotic telescopes on two ...

Light is something we rarely think twice about. It enters our homes through windows, illuminates the streets at night and ...

For a century, amateur telescope makers have gathered at the Stellafane convention to celebrate their craft. Will the event last another 100 years?

Journey 780 million light-years to witness the merger of galaxy clusters. Discover how different telescopes reveal distinct parts of the story, from the multi-million-degree gas seen in X-rays to the ...

The Swift Observatory’s demise came after the failure of a long-shot mission to save the telescope by boosting its orbit.

By modeling how a planet without life develops its atmosphere, astronomers hope to be able to better distinguish rocky ...

A sparkling Hubble image is helping astronomers explore whether an ancient star cluster once belonged to another galaxy.

Hubble and James Webb space telescopes observed a mysterious scene of star formation in the Carina Nebula, an enormous cloud ...

On October 30, 2026, an article was posted on the official NVIDIA blog stating that agentic AI has joined the search for ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yjan Gordon , University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (THE CONVERSATION) Neutrinos are ...