Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese technology-demonstrating satellite on Monday night (Dec. 8), and you can watch the action ...

NASA imaged Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) every four minutes for nearly 40 days, marking the longest any comet has been tracked with ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

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

The eruption’s sulfur dioxide cloud moved eastward, reaching India on November 25 and remaining detectable until December 1, ...

Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis from researchers ...

One of the reasons astronomers like to put telescopes in space is that the “seeing” is better. With no turbulent atmosphere in the way the stars shine steadily, rather than twinkling as they do when ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

Volcanoes rarely erupt without warning, but the signals they send are often subtle, scattered and easy to miss. Now a new ...

A NASA satellite captured what no one expected: a massive Pacific tsunami unfolding in real-time, revealing wave behavior ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...