The Moon has long been cast as a dead world, a place of dust, vacuum and brutal temperature swings that no living thing could ...

Study using radio telescope data finds most geostationary satellites emit little unintended radio interference in frequencies used for astronomy ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the Sun.

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

As SpaceX, Amazon, and others vie for supremacy in the race to establish constellations of communications satellites, the superhighway used by low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is becoming dangerously ...

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 ...

Astronomy might be the last realm one might expect to be impacted by global climate warming. But now researchers say that even large ground-based optical observatories are suffering from the ...