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

Satellite streaks could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

CNSA’s 2026 space missions will take China’s space program to new heights. From Chang’e‑7 Lunar Mission to the Xuntian space ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

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 ...

Streaks of light from satellites are ruining space images. It will get worse as the number of satellites increases to half a ...

Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it harder to peer into space. Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it ...

Today the globe is circled by thousands of active satellites—each prone to photobombing astronomers’ telescopes as an artificial star zipping across the night sky. Scientists working with ground-based ...

Commercial satellites in orbit, which are largely owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, are blocking images of the cosmos taken from both the ground and in space. A study released by Nature earlier this month ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope ...

Satellites reflect sunlight, Earthshine, infrared and radio waves. The study found that some of that reflected sunlight can create bright streaks that can obscure cosmic images, including one Hubble ...