A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch more than 1.7 million satellites ...

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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of ...

Plans for 1.7 million new satellites have astronomers sounding the alarm, with a new ESO study calling for a hard cap of 100,000.

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SpaceX plans to launch a million satellites into space, a US startup giant mirrors. Now another dramatic warning follows about the consequences.

The 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy has been awarded to Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley. They share the prize “for their studies of stellar explosions and the origin of the elements”.