Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is alarmed by the threat to ground-based astronomy posed by proposals put forward by ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

Interstellar objects move too fast and arrive too rarely for astronomy to rely on a single instrument or a single kind of light. When comet 3I/ATLAS was first reported on July 1, 2025, observatories ...

SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers, who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed constellation would severely impair observations.

When Ukrainian forces retook the site of the Braude Radio Astronomy Observatory in September 2022 after forcing a Russian ...

War Machine imagines a machine arriving from space. Real astronomy has detected interstellar visitors like ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS.

The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

A new temporary gallery celebrating space and the world of astronomy is opening at the National Maritime Museum this month, ...