Orbiting observatories were supposed to escape the glow and clutter that plague ground-based astronomy, but the next ...

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

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

Space is filling up with satellites, and that’s bad news for astronomy. Researchers already knew that artificial satellites ...

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in ...

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies — and increasingly by commercial companies — are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade ...

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organised by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade.

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

After more than six months of COVID-related closures, observational astronomy is largely getting back to work. Many of the world’s biggest telescopes have reopened their domes in recent weeks, ...

So far, the mobile astronomy column has been all about apps. But we cover astronomy gadgets, too — and at the top of that list are computerized GOTO telescopes. In this column, we'll cover how they ...

The United Kingdom is a terrible place to use a telescope, at least if you consider the weather. There might be one clear night a week, or worse. So it probably takes a certain amount of bravery for ...