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

A Texas Tech Assistant Astronomy Professor, Elias Aydi, along with other astronomers, used a cutting-edge technique to ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters will also contaminate observations by four space telescopes, including Hubble ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

They rely on detailed and precise images of distant space to better understand our universe.Already, many of those images ...

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 ...

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 studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...