Orbiting observatories were supposed to escape the glow and clutter that plague ground-based astronomy, but the next generation of satellite networks is rapidly erasing that advantage. As commercial ...

Light reflected from satellites pollutes the images taken by telescopes orbiting Earth, as well as those on the ground. Without mitigations, this will only get worse. Read the paper: Satellite ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broadband access in rural and remote ...

Satellites reflect sunlight, Earthshine, infrared and radio waves. A new NASA-led study shows that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from some ...

On Wednesday, three NASA astronomers released an analysis showing that several planned orbital telescopes would see their images criss-crossed by planned satellite constellations, such as a fully ...