From nurturing critical thinking to powering weather forecasts and national security, space science holds the key to a smarter future. But in Bangladesh, a lack of vision and investment is keeping our ...

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The number of satellites orbiting Earth is rising fast, thanks to private companies such as SpaceX. But just how big will ...

Although the astronomers royal post is largely honorary today, it has long been a title awarded to the most prominent ...

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ...

The US is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance the search for life beyond Earth.

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On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of our universe.

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...