Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...

Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical ...

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radio ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

This violent fate is rare: fewer than about 1% of stars are big enough to end their lives this way. Indeed, these dramatic explosions only occur in so-called “massive stars”. These are stars with a ...

Observations show that giant star WOH G64 rapidly changed temperature and identity, revealing massive stars evolving in real ...

NASA deployed a fleet of spacecraft and ground-based observatories to photograph interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it crossed through the inner solar system, producing the most detailed views ever ...

Anduril Industries said it plans to acquire ExoAnalytic Solutions, a company that operates one of the world’s largest commercial networks of telescopes used to track satellites and space debris, in a ...

More than half of the near-Earth objects large enough to destroy a city have never been spotted by any telescope on or off the planet. NASA estimates the total population of these objects at roughly ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded BlackSky a contract worth up to $99 million to develop a large optical imaging payload intended for future space-based intelligence systems.

Three years ago, in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the passage of an "ultra-energetic" cosmic neutrino was observed—the ...

Anduril Industries announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space intelligence firm that operates a vast network of sensors monitoring the veiled movements of satellites ...