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

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

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

A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...

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

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

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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Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...

Long before starlight filled the cosmos for the first time, the young universe may have been simmering, according to a new study. The findings suggest that about 800 million years after the Big Bang, ...

Look into the night sky, and it might seem like space is a vast expanse of darkness. But are any regions darker than others? What's the darkest place in the solar system and, on a grander scale, the ...