The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will not be celebrating its 22nd birthday in orbit. The incredible space telescope will ...

The 14th test flight marks a crucial milestone toward the company’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars, but it was not a complete success. By Kenneth Chang A previous mission left two ...

McWilliams directs SuperDARN Canada, part of an international effort that uses radar to learn more about the Earth’s upper atmosphere. As a summer student in 1992, McWilliams helped build the first ...

The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astronomy and astrophysics with the research community, the ...

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a partner (NSF ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — the first space observatory named for a woman — is poised to become one of astronomy’s biggest workhorses. With a field of view 100 times that of the Hubble ...

A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch more than 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have "devastating ...

The world’s first commercial space science telescope, Mauve, just sent back data from low-Earth orbit, achieving “first light” — and signaling a potential new era for low-cost observation. Launched ...

Many university students are interested in astronomy, but may be concerned about employment after college. The number of astronomy and space science jobs is limited, but the number of qualified people ...

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