Stars and satellites are meeting more frequently in the night sky, raising vital questions about the future of astronomy.

A new era in space research is on the horizon, with the launch of the Mauve space telescope, the world’s first commercial deep space observatory. Developed by the London-based start-up Blue Skies ...

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

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, looked different than it does ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

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 ...

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 ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...