The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful ...

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The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and ...

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The increasing number of satellites – such as the SpaceX megaconstellation Starlink, which makes up more than half of all the satellites in space – is also affecting astronomy. From the first ...

A new report in Nature discusses how the dramatic increase in satellite launches will affect astronomy. Before 2019, the largest group of associated satellites was the Iridium satellite constellation, ...

It’s unclear if it's even feasible, but it would be a danger to space exploration, astronomy, and even our health.

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 ...

“Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned. In recent years, companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX have launched thousands of new ...

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