Three of the world’s most influential astronomy organizations filed formal objections on March 16, 2026, against two proposals they say would permanently damage the night sky: Reflect Orbital’s plan ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to advance mapping and imaging methods on other planets? This is what a study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address ...

Should a million new satellites be launched, in the orbits and with the sizes proposed, the stars we are able to see at night ...

A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia (HMA), widely known as the "Asian Water Tower." This critical water source, which ...

A shocking image shows how the night sky view is being crowded by satellites. Astrophotographers observing Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) have captured striking evidence of how rapidly Earth’s near-space ...

A proposed mega-expansion of orbital satellites could leave humans seeing more satellites than stars, raising alarm among astronomers and environmental researchers.

In the '80s, the image of the Earth floating in the vacuum of space acted as a collective wake-up call: this is our planet, where we live. But beyond this awareness, true collective consciousness on a ...

The first artificial satellite put into orbit was Sputnik I. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, more than 10 years before the U.S. put a man on the moon. It was only about the size of a ...

According to an analysis by researcher Shanaka Anselm Perera, the company MizarVision has been releasing high-resolution ...

How Is the NRO Evolving Its Satellite Architecture? Speaking at the Goddard Space Science Symposium hosted by the American Astronautical Society on Thursday, Scolese acknowledged ...

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 ...