The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...

The number of satellites in space continues to rise due to the deployment of megaconstellations. For decades, humanity has sent about 200 satellites every year into space. You need just a couple of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Launched on 1 July 2025 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, MTG-S operates from a geostationary orbit, about 36 000 km above Earth’s surface and is able to ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...

“Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned. In recent years, companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX have launched thousands of new ...

A new report in Nature discusses how the dramatic increase in satellite launches will affect astronomy. Before 2019, the largest group of associated satellites was the Iridium satellite constellation, ...