"It's like bugs on a windshield." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When astronomers first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory in ...

Our view of space is under threat from the rapidly growing cloud of satellites circling the planet. Streaks of reflected light from satellites are ruining space telescope images all over the world.

Reflections cast by a growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth could ruin more than 95% of images taken by some space telescopes in the next decade, according to a NASA-led study. The reflected ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Over the next decade, 96% of images from some space observatories in low Earth orbit will be affected by light pollution from ...

The increase in satellites orbiting the Earth could affect the likes of the Hubble Telescope An image simulating how lights from satellites contaminate images of the universe taken by space telescopes ...

PARIS, France — Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could contaminate almost all the images taken by space telescopes, ...