The United States' spy satellite agency is giving NASA two spare space telescopes free of charge, each potentially more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA officials announced today (June 4 ...

Stars and satellites are meeting more frequently in the night sky, raising vital questions about the future of astronomy.

When astronomers first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory in the 1990s, the sky above the Chilean Cerro Pachón, where the star-observing machine was to be located, looked different than it does ...

Starfish Space raised $29 million in 2024 to develop autonomous vehicles for life-extension in geostationary orbit and ...

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Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

HEO’s satellite-to-satellite imaging uncovers secrets of Chinese tech-test spacecraft Australian company HEO has imaged and modeled a mystery Chinese satellite prior to its reentry into Earth’s ...

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are seeing it like never before. Thanks to the most powerful solar telescope ...

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky. The ensuing search for its ...