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

The RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea was once used to support missions to Venus and transmit messages to potential alien life ...

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 ...

Seattle-based Hubble Network says it has raised $70 million in additional investment to accelerate the growth of its ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months ...

At the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Meredith Rawls makes sure reflected sunlight doesn’t ruin astronomical observations by the world’s newest sky-observing super-machine.

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 ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

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