Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A dramatic rise in the number of internet satellites ...

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

To make the discoveries, the researchers used their AI tool, which they’re calling AnomalyMatch, on nearly 100 million ...

NASA is sounding a clear alarm about the way SpaceX is reshaping low orbit, warning that the company’s satellite swarms and proposed Hubble servicing plans could put one of astronomy’s most important ...

Since its launch in 1990, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The space telescope revealed a universe teeming with galaxies, stars, and planets instead of what we once saw as empty ...