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.

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

‘Alarming Increase’ in Satellites Is Making It Impossible for Astronomers to See Space ...

Space telescopes are facing increasing difficulties in realizing accurate, unpolluted images of the cosmos due to the growing number of internet satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). The problem is so ...

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 ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

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, NASA astronomers ...

Chinese satellite will be used for national land surveys, urban planning, environmental management and comprehensive disaster ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...