The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

NASA’s $1.2 billion PRIMA will explore how galaxies evolve and how planets emerge from disks of gas and dust

If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures

If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures

Puzzling event could be an artifact of gravitational lensing, a new model suggests

With a view 100 times larger than Hubble, the observatory will survey the cosmos for distant worlds and clues to dark energy

Two scientists' cars were burned at the proposed Sardinian site, in what researchers say was an attempt to intimidate supporters of the gravitational-wave observatory

With preparations underway for extended-duration crewed deep space missions, the health risks of solar particle events (SPEs) to astronauts are becoming increasingly pertinent. To address this hazard,...

Triton’s destructive wake exposed clay-like minerals from within ancient icy worlds, now reaccreted as Neptune’s inner moons.

Jodrell Bank Observatory is one of several projects to lose funding following a review by the cash-strapped Science and Technology Facilities Council

Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions

A growing number of theories propose Uranus and Neptune are rocky worlds

Orbiting data centers and sunlight reflectors would scupper astronomy by leaving streaks on telescope images and brightening skies, study finds

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

Vehicle will attempt a daring capture-and-boost mission to extend the life of the Swift observatory