A NASA study predicts that 96% of the images from the ARRAKIHS mission will be contaminated by the light from the more than ...

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are increasingly falling from the sky, with solar storms causing them to deorbit faster than anticipated. This trend, particularly noticeable from mid-2025, raises ...

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

Deployment of tens of thousands of communication satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) is creating a diffuse veil of light ...

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 ...

NASA on Wednesday warned that almost all space telescope images could soon be contaminated due to the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit. The satellites, part of megaconstellations ...

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

Satellite constellations are a relatively new threat to astronomy; prior to the drop in launch costs driven by SpaceX’s ...

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Satellites in low Earth orbit currently disrupt radioastronomical observations hundreds of times a day. An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises ...