"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are ...

Low Earth orbit is filling up with industrial-scale fleets of satellites, and the collateral damage is becoming impossible to ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

They rely on detailed and precise images of distant space to better understand our universe.Already, many of those images ...

Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis from researchers ...

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Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Study using radio telescope data finds most geostationary satellites emit little unintended radio interference in frequencies used for astronomy ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

Trident Technical College astronomy professor Blake Crosby has a gift for translating complex science into fascinating conversation. He kindly agreed to answer imaginative questions about cosmic myste ...