While NASA's James Webb Telescope and other instruments have already spotted abundant water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

They rely on detailed and precise images of distant space to better understand our universe.Already, many of those images from both ground- and space-based satellites are smeared with light as the ...

Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis from researchers ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

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Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

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

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.