“Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned.

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in ...

Eleven faculty members are receiving support for their work through this year’s Hellman Fellowships, and it comes right when ...

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FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

On the ground, its rings are hard to appreciate; dunes, heat haze, and uneven terrain all conspire to hide the full shape. But from space, especially in the images taken by the Copernicus satellite, ...

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Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

Both of Friday’s Astronomical Unit lectures are related to celestial phenomena not discernible to human senses. David ...

A scientist has identified a possible astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, as described in the Bible ...