Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

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

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

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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 ...

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

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in ...

CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...

Long before starlight filled the cosmos for the first time, the young universe may have been simmering, according to a new study. The findings suggest that about 800 million years after the Big Bang, ...