One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in China that was ...

An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises to protect radio telescopes ...

From Sputnik's lonely orbit to today's crowded skies, satellites shape our world in many ways. But how many are up there, and ...

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June 18, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute and SpaceX have launched a groundbreaking collaboration to help protect sensitive radio astronomy observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) ...

"It's like bugs on a windshield." 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, ...

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

Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The ...

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 ...

Researchers in Germany say that they have developed a lightweight and robust telescope for satellite-based laser links that is suitable for series production. Tesat is also working on a European Space ...