Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about ...

Sending a mission to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) is the most effective way of actually directly imaging a potentially ...

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary. Tom has a master’s degree in ...

Space astronomy has been peddled as a way out of light pollution on the earth, but there is yet another form of glow that is accompanying the telescopes. With the spacecraft around low Earth orbit ...

SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

The 'Snow Moon' is named for the inclement weather that is common in January.

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky ...

A story of the impressive Chandra X-ray Observatory, how the telescope works, and the sad recent news of budget cuts halting research.

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...