A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...

Astronomers have already warned that SpaceX's Starlink satellite network contributes to blemishes on images from observatories on the ground even if its aim is to provide broadband internet. But this ...

They rely on detailed and precise images of distant space to better understand our universe.Already, many of those images ...

A Texas Tech Assistant Astronomy Professor, Elias Aydi, along with other astronomers, used a cutting-edge technique to ...

A new study provides evidence that SpaceX Starlink satellites are emitting electromagnetic radiation in orbit — and this has the potential to disrupt astronomical observations. “This study represents ...

LAS VEGAS -- September 6, 2024 -- The origins of aptly named supermassive black holes – which can weigh in at more than a million times the mass of the sun and reside in the center of most galaxies – ...

Recent research challenges the prevailing theory that hot Jupiters (gas giants orbiting close to their stars) form through a disruptive process that prevents the existence of smaller planets in the ...

A team of scientists using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the Netherlands has observed radio waves that carry the distinct signatures of aurorae, caused by the interaction between ...

A raw Hubble image shows a satellite streak. (NASA / ESA / STScI / Kruk et al. / Nature) An analysis of more than 100,000 images from the Hubble Space Telescope, conducted with the aid of artificial ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had both positive and negative impacts on astronomy research, where overall the number of research papers being produced increased, but the number of new or junior ...